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say it: DIZ-muh-lee
dismally is an adverb meaning "in a cheerless manner". It carries 2 recorded senses.
in a cheerless manner
“in August 1914, there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future”
in a dreadful manner
“as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for dismally come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.