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How to sign: depressing in character or appearance
"drove through dingy streets"; "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens; "drab old buildings"; "a dreary mining town"; "gloomy tenements"; "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams;
Similiar / Same: dismal, drear, dreary, dingy, drab, sorry
How to sign: causing dejection
"a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather";
Similiar / Same: depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, grim, dark, blue
