Related Clues:

• Sombre
• Uninviting
• Like reality, at times
• Stern-looking
• Lacking mirth
• Humorless
• Dark, as prospects
• Affording no hope
• Like a feared reaper
• Hardly hopeful
• Severe in appearance
• Dismal, dour
• Dark and depressing
• Dark, depressing
• Tight-lipped and foreboding