Dismal
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

SAD
Experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; "feeling sad because his dog had died"; "Better by far that you should forget and smile / Than that you should remember and be sad"- Christina Rossetti

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

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SORE
An open skin infection

SLOW
(of business) not active or brisk; "business is dull (or slow)"; "a sluggish market"

POKY
A correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

PALE
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

HURT
The act of damaging something or someone

GREY
Clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"

GRAY
Clothing that is a grey color; "he was dressed in grey"

GLUM
Moody and melancholic

FADE
Gradually ceasing to be visible

FLAT
A suite of rooms usually on one floor of an apartment house

DULL
Make less lively or vigorous; "Middle age dulled her appetite for travel"

DOUR
Stubbornly unyielding; "dogged persistence"; "dour determination"; "the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics"; "a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it"- T.S.Eliot; "men tenacious of opinion"

DEAD
People who are no longer living; "they buried the dead"

COLD
The sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head"

BLAH
Pompous or pretentious talk or writing

ASHY
Of a light grey

ARID
Lacking sufficient water or rainfall; "an arid climate"; "a waterless well"; "miles of waterless country to cross"

GRIM
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"

DRAB
A dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

BLUE
Any organization or party whose uniforms or badges are blue; "the Union army was a vast blue"

DARK
An unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness"

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DINGY
Thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot; "a miner's begrimed face"; "dingy linen"; "grimy hands"; "grubby little fingers"; "a grungy kitchen"

DREAR
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"

AWFUL
Exceptionally bad or displeasing; "atrocious taste"; "abominable workmanship"; "an awful voice"; "dreadful manners"; "a painful performance"; "terrible handwriting"; "an unspeakable odor came sweeping into the room"

SORRY
Feeling or expressing regret or sorrow or a sense of loss over something done or undone; "felt regretful over his vanished youth"; "regretful over mistakes she had made"; "he felt bad about breaking the vase"

BLEAK
Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"

WEARY
Exhaust or get tired through overuse or great strain or stress; "We wore ourselves out on this hike"

VAPID
Lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest; "a vapid conversation"; "a vapid smile"; "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"

TAUPE
A greyish brown

STIFF
The dead body of a human being; "the cadaver was intended for dissection"; "the end of the police search was the discovery of a corpse"; "the murderer confessed that he threw the stiff in the river"; "honor comes to bless the turf that wraps their clay"

SOBER
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

SMOKY
Marked by or emitting or filled with smoke; "smoky rafters"; "smoky chimneys"; "a smoky fireplace"; "a smoky corridor"

SLATY
Of the color of slate or granite; "the slaty sky of dawn"

SHARP
Quick and forceful; "a sharp blow"

PEARL
A shade of white the color of bleached bones

MURKY
Dark or gloomy; "a murky dungeon"; "murky rooms lit by smoke-blackened lamps"

MOUSY
Infested with mice

MOODY
United States evangelist (1837-1899)

LIVID
Furiously angry; "willful stupidity makes him absolutely livid"

INANE
Devoid of intelligence

HOHUM

HEAVY
A serious (or tragic) role in a play

FERAL
Wild and menacing; "a pack of feral dogs"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

DUSTY
Covered with a layer of dust; "a dusty pile of books"

DUSKY
Lighted by or as if by twilight; "The dusky night rides down the sky/And ushers in the morn"-Henry Fielding; "the twilight glow of the sky"; "a boat on a twilit river"

BLANK
A blank gap or missing part

BLACK
(board games) the darker pieces

ASHEN
Anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock"; "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"

ACIER

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WOODEN
Made or consisting of (entirely or in part) or employing wood; "a wooden box"; "an ancient cart with wooden wheels"

TRISTE

TRAGIC
Of or relating to or characteristic of tragedy; "tragic hero"

SULLEN
Darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

STUFFY
Affected with a sensation of stoppage or obstruction; "a stuffy feeling in my chest"

STODGY
(used pejoratively) out of fashion; old fashioned; "moss-grown ideas about family life"

STEELY
Resembling steel in hardness

SOLEMN
Dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises; "a grave God-fearing man"; "a quiet sedate nature"; "as sober as a judge"; "a solemn promise"; "the judge was solemn as he pronounced sentence"

SILVER
Silverware eating utensils

RUEFUL
Feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

PEARLY
Informal terms for a human `tooth'

PALLID
Lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness; "a pale rendition of the aria"; "pale prose with the faint sweetness of lavender"; "a pallid performance"

MOVING
Used of a series of photographs presented so as to create the illusion of motion; "Her ambition was to be in moving pictures or `the movies'"

MOROSE
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

LEADEN
Lacking lightness or liveliness; "heavy humor"; "a leaden conversation"

JEJUNE
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

HOLLOW
A cavity or space in something; "hunger had caused the hollows in their cheeks"

GRAYED

EFFETE
Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

DRAGGY

DISMAL
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"

DAPPLE
A small contrasting part of something; "a bald spot"; "a leopard's spots"; "a patch of clouds"; "patches of thin ice"; "a fleck of red"

BITTER
The taste experience when quinine or coffee is taken into the mouth

BARREN
Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

WOEFUL
Affected by or full of grief or woe; "his sorrow...made him look...haggard and...woebegone"- George du Maurier

SOMBRE
Grave or even gloomy in character; "solemn and mournful music"; "a suit of somber black"; "a somber mood"

DREARY
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"

GLOOMY
Filled with melancholy and despondency ; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

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DOLEFUL
Filled with or evoking sadness; "the child's doleful expression"; "stared with mournful eyes"; "mournful news"

UNHAPPY
Generalized feeling of distress

TEDIOUS
Using or containing too many words; "long-winded (or windy) speakers"; "verbose and ineffective instructional methods"; "newspapers of the day printed long wordy editorials"; "proceedings were delayed by wordy disputes"

STERILE
Incapable of reproducing; "an infertile couple"

SILVERY
Of lustrous grey; covered with or tinged with the color of silver; "silvery hair"

PITEOUS
Deserving or inciting pity; "a hapless victim"; "miserable victims of war"; "the shabby room struck her as extraordinarily pathetic"- Galsworthy; "piteous appeals for help"; "pitiable homeless children"; "a pitiful fate"; "Oh, you poor thing"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "a wretched life"

PAINFUL
Causing misery or pain or distress; "it was a sore trial to him"; "the painful process of growing up"

OBSCURE
Reduce a vowel to a neutral one, such as a schwa

JOYLESS
Not experiencing or inspiring joy; "a joyless man"; "a joyless occasion"; "joyless evenings"

INSIPID
Lacking interest or significance or impact; "an insipid personality"; "jejune novel"

GRIZZLY
Powerful brownish-yellow bear of the uplands of western North America

GRIZZLE
A grey wig

GREYISH
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"

GRAYISH
Of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black; "the little grey cells"; "gray flannel suit"; "a man with greyish hair"

FUNERAL
A ceremony at which a dead person is buried or cremated; "hundreds of people attended his funeral"

FORLORN
Marked by or showing hopelessness; "the last forlorn attempt"; "a forlorn cause"

DAPPLED
Having spots or patches of color

CYNICAL
Believing the worst of human nature and motives; having a sneering disbelief in e.g. selflessness of others

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WEARIFUL