1. (a.) Gloomy; bleak; sad\.

Acheronian Acherontic Cimmerian Quaker-colored Stygian acier apocalyptic ashen ashy bad baleful baneful black blackish bleak bodeful boding caliginous canescent cinereous cinerous clouded cloudy creamy dapple dapple-gray dappled dappled-gray dark dark and gloomy dark-colored darkish darksome dead deadened decorous delicate demure depressing depressive dim dingy dire dismal dispiriting doomful dove-colored dove-gray drab drear drearisome dreary dull dusk dusky dusty earnest eggshell evil evil-starred fateful flat foreboding formal frowning funebrial funereal glaucescent glaucous gloomful glooming gloomy gloss grave gray gray-black gray-brown gray-colored gray-drab gray-green gray-spotted gray-toned gray-white grayed grayish grim grim-faced grim-visaged griseous grizzle grizzled grizzly ill ill-boding ill-fated ill-lighted ill-lit ill-omened ill-starred inauspicious iridescent iron-gray lackluster lead-gray leaden lifeless light livid long-faced lowering lusterless mat mellow menacing mother-of-pearl mouse-colored mouse-gray mousy murky nacreous nigrescent no-nonsense obscure of evil portent ominous opalescent overcast pale pastel patinaed pearl pearl-gray pearly portending portentous quiet sad saturnine sedate semigloss serious silver silver-gray silvered silvery simple sinister slate-colored slaty smoke-gray smoky sober sober-minded sobersided soft soft-colored soft-hued softened solemn sombrous staid steel-gray steely stone-colored stone-faced stormy straight-faced subdued subtle swart swarthy sweet taupe tender tenebrous thoughtful threatening triste unfavorable unfortunate unlucky unpromising unpropitious unsmiling untoward wan weariful wearisome weary weighty