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What (who) is dismal - definition
DEROGATORY ALTERNATIVE NAME FOR ECONOMICS
Dismal science; The miserable science; Dismal Science
Dismal
·adj Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
II. Dismal ·adj Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
dismal
a.
1.
Cheerless, gloomy, dark, dull, dreary, lonesome.
2.
Melancholy, mournful, sad, doleful, dolorous, sombre, lugubrious, funereal.
3.
Horrid, horrible, terrible, dire, frightful.
dismal
['d?zm(?)l]
¦ adjective
1. causing or showing gloom or depression; dreary.
2. informal pitifully or disgracefully bad: a dismal performance.
Phrases
the dismal science humorous economics.
Derivatives
dismally adverb
dismalness noun
Origin
ME: from earlier dismals, the two days in each month which in medieval times were believed to be unlucky, from Anglo-Norman Fr. dis mal, from med. L. dies mali 'evil days'.
Wikipedia
The dismal science
The dismal science is a derogatory term for the discipline of economics. Scottish essayist, historian and philosopher Thomas Carlyle used the phrase in his 1849 essay, Occasional Discourse on the Negro Question, in contrast with the then-familiar phrase "gay science" used to refer to the art of troubadours.
Examples of use of dismal
1. Not everything in the Israel Police is so dismal.
2. Garcia‘s first term as president in 1'85–'0 was dismal.
3. Describing the dismal situation is not enough, the forum announced.
4. Industrial production figures, released last week, were even more dismal.
5. Wen also promised to improve China‘s dismal industrial safety record.