Clues for the word "DISMAL"
We've had 50 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 114 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Evening Standard Quick crossword on October 22, 2025.
Definition of dismal
- a. - Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
- a. - Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
Referring Clues
- Hardly encouraging
- Cheerless
- Hardly cheery
- Saturnine
- Bleak
- Dreary
- Gloomy
- Pretty bad
- Bleak and cheerless
- Dark and gloomy
- Woeful
- Wretched
- Grad's opposite
- Sunk in gloom
- Depressing
- Pessimist - is my jam mild? (anag)
- Gloomy sergeant major has face put out
- Bleak philosophy embraced by youth in recession
- It's sad when there are many misdirected mails
- I'm sad when ploughed at Latin - very gloomy
- Left to last, I'm sad, worried and gloomy
- Like unhappy maids left behind
- Gloomy mug laid into by sergeant major
- Gloomy NCO occupied phone
- 24 taking bondage in black
- Girl's illness is depressing
- Depressing, gloomy
- Hit boy turning up sorrowful
- Gloomy little sergeant major with face put out
- Drab little girl hits back
- Depressing that some of third world is malnourished
- Sad diva, not half small? Not quite
- Poor quality manuscript in set rejected
- Lads I'm organising are gloomy
- Gloomy day - sail out across mouth of Mersey
- Sergeant major, breaking phone, becomes gloomy
- Melancholic face capturing painful experience
- Sombre
- Gloomy daughter is left cuddling mother
- Miserable
- The new maid's left, having been unhappy
- Gloomy and sad, I'm about to reach the half century
- Grim
- Really bad
- Very far from fine
- Very dreary
- Doleful
- Lads I'm training are gloomy
- Bleak and dreary
- Pretty bleak
Last Seen In
- Evening Standard Quick - October 22, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - September 16, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 15, 2025
- Mirror Daily - May 03, 2025
- Evening Standard Cryptic - January 24, 2025
- Mirror Daily - January 14, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - November 26, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - September 03, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 26, 2024
- Mirror Daily - August 03, 2024
- Daily Cryptic - June 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Quick - May 30, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 05, 2024
- Evening Standard Easy - March 14, 2024
- New York Times - January 29, 2024
- Daily Quick - January 10, 2024
- Mirror Daily - December 24, 2023
- New York Times - December 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - November 24, 2023
- USA Today - November 13, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 30, 2023
- Family Time - August 20, 2023
- Mirror Daily - August 19, 2023
- Mirror Daily - May 16, 2023
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 25, 2023
- Mirror Daily - February 05, 2023
- Evening Standard Easy - September 02, 2022
- Mirror Daily - January 14, 2018
- Daily Quick - January 10, 2018
- Evening Standard Easy - January 02, 2018
- And in 84 more crossword puzzles...