glum, gloomy, downbeat, dreary, morose, grim, bleak, cheery, dull, upbeat, uninspiring, humorless, drab, downcast, lackluster, cheerless, sombre, taciturn, dismal, turgid, sullen, phlegmatic, stolid, listless, rosy, passionless, lugubrious, tepid, stoic, insipid, amiable, joyless, diffident, depressing, pugnacious, hangdog, cheerful, stodgy, dispiriting, grumpy, forlorn, pessimistic, somber, laconic, desultory, unsmiling, rueful, bland, dyspeptic, stoical, tetchy, genial, dourest, spiritless, ebullient, dreich, nervy, mordant, waspish, scrappy, feisty, ponderous, unconvincing, staid, doleful, pallid, workmanlike, jovial, schoolmasterly, flinty, unrevealing, unadventurous, surly, owlish, cantankerous, unexciting, dispassionate, subdued, obdurate, chipper, unexcitable, dullish, irascible, pedantic, chirpy, meek, sanguine, charmless, avuncular, jocular, uninspired, muted, steely, emotionless, unenergetic, rumbustious, snappish, scatty, careworn, feeble, droll, archetypal, outgoing, queer, stern, adhering, advanced, anglo, animation, ardor, arid, bitterness, confidence, fiery, hauteur, keen, madam, mas, merry, natural, petty, saturnine, truculent, easygoing, reticent, dejected, despondent, impassive, saddened, serene, affable

bulldog, dark, dogged, forbidding, glowering, glum, grim, ill-natured, moody, morose, pertinacious, saturnine, sour, stubborn, sullen, tenacious, unpleasant, unyielding