somber (adj.)
- apocalyptic
- ashen
- ashy
- bad
- baleful
- baneful
- black
- blackish
- bleak
- boding
- caliginous
- canescent
- clouded
- cloudy
- creamy
- dappled
- dark
- dark-colored
- darkish
- dead
- deadened
- decorous
- delicate
- demure
- depressing
- depressive
- dim
- dingy
- dire
- dismal
- dispiriting
- drab
- drear
- dreary
- dull
- dusky
- dusty
- earnest
- evil
- fateful
- flat
- foreboding
- formal
- frowning
- funereal
- glaucous
- gloomful
- glooming
- gloomy
- grave
- gray
- gray-black
- gray-brown
- gray-green
- gray-white
- grayish
- grim
- grizzled
- grizzly
- ill
- ill-fated
- ill-omened
- ill-starred
- inauspicious
- iridescent
- iron-gray
- lackluster
- leaden
- lifeless
- light
- livid
- long-faced
- lowering
- lusterless
- mat
- mellow
- menacing
- mouse-colored
- mousy
- murky
- nacreous
- no-nonsense
- obscure
- ominous
- opalescent
- overcast
- pale
- pastel
- pearly
- portentous
- quiet
- sad
- saturnine
- sedate
- serious
- silver
- silver-gray
- silvery
- simple
- sinister
- slaty
- smoky
- sober
- sobersided
- soft
- softened
- solemn
- staid
- steely
- stormy
- subdued
- subtle
- swart
- swarthy
- sweet
- taupe
- tender
- tenebrous
- thoughtful
- threatening
- unfavorable
- unfortunate
- unlucky
- unpromising
- unpropitious
- unsmiling
- untoward
- wan
- wearisome
- weary
- weighty