dismal

depressing in character or appearance

• “drove through dingy streets”
• “the dismal prison twilight” Charles Dickens
• “drab old buildings”
• “a dreary mining town”
• “gloomy tenements”
• “sorry routine that follows on the heels of death” B.A.Williams

causing dejection

• “a blue day”
• “the dark days of the war”
• “a week of rainy depressing weather”
• “a disconsolate winter landscape”
• “the first dismal dispiriting days of November”
• “a dark gloomy day”
• “grim rainy weather”