Difference between Dispiriting and Dismal

DISPIRITING 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.

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.

Distressing, Disappointing, Demoralising, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Disconsolate, Discouraging, Cheerless, Gloomy, Grim, Dismal, Disheartening, Demoralizing, Depressing

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

Distressing, Disappointing, Uncheerful, Demoralising, Blue, Dark, Disconsolate, Discouraging, Cheerless, Gloomy, Grim, Dismal, Disheartening, Demoralizing, Depressing

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

Any delicate you how soundly liquid body substance dispiriting outlived servants.
Jewish writer of all time to characterize puzzling and dispiriting situations.
Instead of energizing individuals, they are dispiriting and create cynicism.
Lots of guys who are dispiriting to yield pressure meytei.
Players can suffer with send up dispiriting to judge drawings.
His introduction to Egypt was of the most dispiriting kind.
This is both a heartening and entirely dispiriting development.
This is what I find kind of dispiriting.
Went to HD and found everything frankly dispiriting.
Norton has conducted illustrating this phenomenon is dispiriting.

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.