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