<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>Causing gloom or dejection; gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy: dismal weather.</li><li>Characterized by ineptness or lack of skill, competence, effectiveness, imagination, or interest; pitiful: Our team played a dismal game.</li><li>Of, pertaining to, dealing with, or representing death, especially its grimmer or uglier aspect.</li><li>Of or suggestive of the allegorical dance of death.</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Southern U.S. a tract of swampy land, usually along the coast.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>