mournful, sombre, sepulchral, somber, doleful, elegiac, lugubrious, jaunty, melancholy, morose, melancholic, dolorous, reverential, eerie, reverent, ponderous, solemn, incantatory, somnambulistic, dirgelike, languorous, portentous, hushed, wistful, haunting, sorrowful, pointillistic, sonorous, tenebrous, songlike, ghostly, decorous, lachrymose, florid, plangent, uninflected, churchlike, dreary, dreamlike, pensive, forlorn, gothic, danse macabre, bathetic, glum, ethereal, autumnal, evocative, mozartian, minimalist, maudlin, cacophonic, ruminative, muzzy, unvaried, dissonant, morbid, wordsworthian, cadenced, polytonal, baroque, saturnine, hieratic, dreamy, twee, rueful, luxuriant, turgid, dour, drear, contemplative, rococo, muted, overwrought, moody, unpoetic, kyrie eleison, unquiet, surreal, gloomy, unrevealing, leaden, stately, languid, jazzy, soporific, tinkly, melodramatic, overdecorated, shapeless, drab, declamatory, twilit, mawkish, deathly, beatific, wavey, cheery, hypnotic, spotlit, cheerless, mordant, alien, alluring, ancient, anyone, articulate, authoritative, basic, boring, boyish, breathless, brittle, celtic, cheerful, common, commonplace, cool, disgusting, doctrinal, dogmatic, fair, funeral, funerary, majestic, plaintive, captivating, festive, ghostlike

joyless