Difference between Dismal and Cheerless

DISMAL vs CHEERLESS: NOUN

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.

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.
Depressing in character or appearance

To feel dismal or melancholy.
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.

Without joy, gladness, or comfort; gloomy; destitute of anything to enliven or animate the spirits.

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

Blue, Sorry, Dark, Disconsolate, Somber, Sombre, Dingy, Dismal, Dispiriting, Drear, Grim, Drab, Depressing, Gloomy, Dreary

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

Blue, Sorry, Dark, Disconsolate, Somber, Sombre, Dingy, Dismal, Dispiriting, Drear, Grim, Drab, Depressing, Gloomy, Dreary

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.

Why are you coming home so cheerless and so joyless?.
Cheerless, functional but very cheap and right outside the station; some rooms without toilets.
CALENDER, polish, gloss, burnish, dusky, dismal, cheerless, lowering, furbish, give a glossy surface to.
Some plan it simple, sighed, the teenagers emitted in unison a cheerless mating howl.
This house was altogether too large and cheerless for two people, especially at Christmas.
How truly consistent is the cowardice of suicide with such a cheerless creed!
Again he remained before the cheerless, empty fireplace until sleep overcame him.
Frenchman the cheerless prospect of being attacked on both sides.
Like winter; wintry; cold; hence, disagreeable, cheerless; as, winterly news.
Desolate; devastated; stripped; bare; hence, dreary; dismal; gloomy; cheerless.