dismal

dismal (http://definr.com/dismal)

     adj 1: 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 [syn: dingy, drab, drear,
             dreary, gloomy, sorry]
     2: 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" [syn:
         blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dispiriting,
         gloomy, grim]