(adjective) melancholy, macabre, gloomy, desolate, forlorn, bleak, dismal, sad, mournful, morbid, lonely, saturnine, dreary, solitary, lonesome, somber, glum, drab, melancholic, sullen, drear, dour, regretful, cheerless, mopish, dejected, doleful, joyless or sombre (adverb) gloomily or cheerlessly (verb) be melancholy