Difference between Dark and Dismal

DARK vs DISMAL: NOUN

An obsolete form of darg.
Pieces of laundry having a dark color.
A deep hue or color.
An unenlightened state
Absence of light or illumination
An unilluminated area
Absence of moral or spiritual values
Night; nightfall.
A place having little or no light.
Absence of light.
The absence of light; darkness.
A dark place.
The condition of ignorance; gloom; secrecy.
Absence of light; darkness; obscurity; a place where there is little or no light.
An obscured or unenlightened state or condition; obscurity; a state of ignorance: as, I am still in the dark regarding his intentions.
A state of concealment; secrecy: as, things done in the dark.
A dark hue; a dark spot or part.
The time after sunset and before sunrise while it is dark outside

The devil.
A name given in the southern Atlantic States, in the region bordering on the sea and sounds, and especially in North Carolina, to a tract of land, swampy in character, often covered by a considerable thickness of half-decayed wood and saturated with water.
Plural Mourning-garments.
Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.
See extract and etymology.
Plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.

Brunet (used of hair or skin or eyes)
Devoid or partially devoid of light or brightness; shadowed or black or somber-colored
(used of color) having a dark hue
Marked by difficulty of style or expression
Showing a brooding ill humor
Causing dejection
Lacking enlightenment or knowledge or culture
Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
Having skin rich in melanin pigments
Lacking or having very little light.
Lacking brightness.
Pronounced with the back of the tongue raised toward the velum. Used of the sound (l) in words like full.
Having richness or depth.
Morally corrupt; vicious.
Evil in nature or effect; sinister.
Lacking enlightenment, knowledge, or culture.
Unknown or concealed; mysterious.
Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
Characterized by gloom or pessimism; dismal or bleak.
Reflecting only a small fraction of incident light; tending toward black.
Served without milk or cream.
Being or having a complexion that is not light in color.
Sullen or threatening.
Secret
Not giving performances; closed

Depressing.
Gloomy and bleak.
Disappointingly inadequate.
Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
Dreadful; disastrous.
Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit.
Causing dejection
Depressing in character or appearance
Causing gloom or depression; dreary.

Not giving performances
Wicked or dishonorable
Shadowed or black
To grow or become dark; darken.
Morally black; atrocious; wicked; sinister.
Unenlightened, either mentally or spiritually; characterized by backwardness in learning, art, science, or religion; destitute of knowledge or culture; ignorant; uninstructed; rude: uncivilized: as, the dark places of the earth; the dark ages.
Blind; sightless.
Hence Concealed; secret; mysterious; inscrutable as, keep it dark.
Closed
Threatening; frowning; gloomy; morose: as, a dark scowl.
Characterized by or producing gloom; dreary; cheerless: as, a dark time in the affairs of the country.
Lacking in light or brightness; shaded; obscure: as, a dark day; the dark recesses of a forest.
Not fair: applied to the complexion: as, the dark-skinned races.
Not radiating or reflecting light; wholly or partially black or gray in appearance; having the quality opposite to light or white: as, a dark object; a dark color.
Without light; marked by the absence of light; unilluminated; shadowy: as, a dark night; a dark room.
In the dark; without light.
To make dark; darken; obscure.
To remain in the dark; lurk; lie hidden or concealed.
Obscure; not easily perceived or understood; difficult to interpret or explain: as, a dark saying; a dark passage in an author.
Devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black
(idiom) (in the dark) In a state of ignorance; uninformed.
(idiom) (in the dark) In secret.

Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.
To feel dismal or melancholy.

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy

Colored, Unilluminated, Gloomy, Moody, Dusky, Stygian, Tenebrous, Unlighted, Darkening, Unlit, Blue, Twilit, Lightless, Dim, Darkened

Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy

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Irish origin who had dark features, black hair, dark complexion and eyes.
Our dark times were definitely dark but through ruin comes creation.
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As said earlier Facebook can be a dark dark place.
How dark is too dark as a matter of law?
At the time of this accident the plaintiffs were walking in the dark, on a dark road, wearing dark clothes.
Dark ink includes black, dark blue, dark purple, dark green or dark brown.

So Whatevoked this sense of a dismal tide.
The success rate for second marriages is dismal.
Outside the Church, we are in dismal straights.
The bank rates a dismal F on BBB.
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail is a paved, heavily wooded pathway along the eastern border of Dismal Swamp State Park.
Dismal Swamp, it made me feel very dismal as I looked at it.
Undue inducements and reasonable risks: Will the dismal science lead to dismal research ethics?
Word of the Day: Dismal Dismal adj Gloomy.
Dismal, but not utterly dismal, is still dismal in my book.