dismal
My thoughts turned dismally to the future.
The project failed dismally, embarrassingly, totally.
They ran the country dismally.
Friends and relatives of the murdered women gazed dismally at the defendant in court.
The record is full of dismally bland ballads.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
dog
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone
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Not hopeful
Serious and unpleasant