gloomy

They found the forest very thick on this side, and it looked dark and gloomy.

He seated himself on the edge of that terrible bed, and fell into melancholy and gloomy reverie.

This gloomy fortress, which has for more than three hundred years furnished food for so many wild legends, seemed to Dantès like a scaffold to a malefactor.

The road was smooth and well paved, now, and the country about was beautiful, so that the travelers rejoiced in leaving the forest far behind, and with it the many dangers they had met in its gloomy shades.