gloomy, grim, rosy, glum, dire, dreary, dismal, depressing, pessimistic, dour, sobering, downbeat, brighter, cheerless, ominous, stark, dim, hopeless, forlorn, miserable, sunnier, dispiriting, unpromising, cheerier, desolate, precarious, downcast, upbeat, sombre, barren, somber, unsettling, morose, drab, optimistic, cloudier, despondent, dreadful, uncertain, nightmarish, perilous, sanguine, harsh, apocalyptic, disappointing, parlous, murky, hazy, dull, listless, wretched, darkened, fatalistic, wintry, uninspiring, disheartening, hellish, dicey, lackluster, shabby, dire straits, straitened, troubling, dreich, buoyant, shaky, abysmal, stormy, chilling, uninviting, pitiful, muddled, worse, tenuous, daunting, sickly, damning, crummy, sad, tepid, sullen, woeful, beleaguered, darker, disastrous, dejected, chilly, unpropitious, joyless, woebegone, rudderless, unnerving, frightening, horrid, scary, frightful, sunshiny, weak, drear, horrifying, doleful, worrisome, cheap, simple, keen, near, arid, foreign, heavy, pro, un, ancient, anti, combine, common, ex, grand, hard, ibid, indoors, petty, bleaker, bleakest, windswept, inhospitable, treeless, windy, uninhabited, sunny, swept, rainless

bleakness, desolation, landscape

bare, barren, black, cold, cutting, desolate, dim, hopeless, inhospitable, raw, stark