dismally
In depressing fashion
Dismally describes something done in a gloomy, depressing, or utterly unsuccessful way.
A team performs dismally when they lose badly.
Weather is dismally gray.
A plan fails dismally when it collapses completely: The project went dismally wrong from the start.
The word carries a sense of dreariness or hopelessness.
In an inferior way
- badlyIn an inferior manner
- abysmallyIn a terrible way
- woefullyIn a lamentable way
- patheticallyIn a pitiful way
inadequately · unsuccessfully · feebly · weakly · incompetently · ineffectively · lamentably · pitifully
Causing low mood
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
- mournfulShowing or feeling grief
dejected · crestfallen · downhearted · disheartened · forlorn · woeful · doleful · hopeless
poorly
In an inferior way
pathetically · inadequately · unsuccessfully · feebly · weakly · incompetently · ineffectively · lamentably · pitifully · miserably
depressing
Causing low mood
- sorrowfulFilled with grief
- melancholicInclined toward reflective sorrow
- despondentDeeply discouraged, hopeless
mournful · dejected · crestfallen · downhearted · disheartened · forlorn · woeful · doleful · hopeless · pessimistic
desolate
Bleak and abandoned
cheerless · dreary · gray · overcast · leaden · cold · empty · lifeless · inhospitable · harsh
dismallybrilliantly
With remarkable excellence
superbly · spectacularly · magnificently · excellently · triumphantly
- the dismal scienceNickname for economics
- dismal scienceNickname for economics