Difference between Dismal and Dreary

DISMAL vs DREARY: NOUN

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

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
Depressing in character or appearance
Gloomy and bleak.
Disappointingly inadequate.
Depressing.

Causing dejection
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
Grievous, dire; appalling.
Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations; comfortless; dismal; gloomy.
Sorrowful; distressful.
Boring; dull.
Dismal; bleak.
Depressing in character or appearance
Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

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.

Synonyms and Cheerless, comfortless, drear, dark. Tedious.
Hence Exciting a feeling of tedium or ennui; tiresomely monotonous: as, a dreary book.
Lonesomely dismal or gloomy; exciting a feeling of desolation, sadness, or gloom.
Sorrowful; sad.

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

Dark, Boring, Stuffy, Grim, Bleak, Depressing, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dull, Cheerless, Gloomy, Drab

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

Dark, Boring, Stuffy, Grim, Bleak, Depressing, Uncheerful, Sorry, Dingy, Dismal, Drear, Dull, Cheerless, Gloomy, Drab

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.

January when it was cooler and dreary outside.
How dreary for Stefan, saw him and jumped.
Who would not shun the dreary uncouth place?
How dreary and comfortless to be a peasant!
It is still a damp and dreary day.
Buckingham Palace loomed up unlighted, huge and dreary.
Dull, dry and dreary, to say the least.
Oh, I'll trade you dreary London for dreary California any day of the week-on our 9th straight day of rain.
Be as dreary as if there were no Virginias alas, how dreary would be as dreary as there.
Yalta and I am dreary, very dreary indeed.