drear

adj : 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}, {dismal},

{drab}, {dreary}, {gloomy}, {sorry}]