Difference between Depressing and Dismal

DEPRESSING vs DISMAL: NOUN

Plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.
See extract and etymology.
Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.
Plural Mourning-garments.
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.
The devil.

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

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.

Disheartening, Bleak, Dreary, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Disconsolate, Depressive, Saddening, Cheerless, Dismal, Sad, Grim, Gloomy, Dispiriting

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

Disheartening, Bleak, Dreary, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Disconsolate, Depressive, Saddening, Cheerless, Dismal, Sad, Grim, Gloomy, Dispiriting

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

Fear of a crackdown is depressing share prices.
Of an event or situation: sad, dismal, depressing.
Sometimes I fear all feminist literature is depressing.
This could be depressing to say the least.
For example, we can freely rearrange order of adjectives examples sentences a dull, dark, and depressing day: a depressing, dark, dull day.
Manually depressing interior or exterior pushbutton or depressing touch pad exit will activate the exit devices, retracting the latchbolt.
Now that's a depressing thought but at least this video managed to tackle the subject in a humorous way that is distinctly non-depressing.
The Humans, though, is overrun by depressing characters with depressing problems, who are beset with a few too many mysterious unknowns.
Those headline figures were depressing enough, but what was truly depressing was an actual trip to a KFC.
Those are depressing to get and depressing to throw away.

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.