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dismal

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Adjective

  1. Disastrous, calamitous.
  2. Disappointingly inadequate.
  3. Causing despair; gloomy and bleak.
  4. Depressing, dreary, cheerless.

Noun

  1. A dreary swamp in eastern North Carolina or Virginia in the United States.

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