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• a  causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
  something cheerless about the room

• To all the evacuees Poston (a conglomeration of cheerless wooden barracks on the unshaded desert) seemed like a concentration camp.
• On Friday afternoon, the sun returned and a cheerless rainbow arced across the skyline.
• In countless different ways, it has almost always been an unpleasant, disagreeable, cheerless, uneasy and reproachful place; in the end, it can only be described as magnificent.

• depressing
• uncheerful

• cheerful

News & Articles

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• Phil Reisman: Yonkers man needs Rod Serling's help to navigate City Hall claim
  Christopher Alkins has lived in Yonkers for 43 years, but in all those years, he has never ventured into the city's fifth dimension - a cheerless, bureaucratic void that is known only to its most jaded citizens.
  June 16, 2013 - The Journal News

Quotes

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• Stephen Bayley in Times Online
  Every time he raises his head, poor Mr Bayley sees only "a giant, pneumatic, puce-coloured reindeer with white spots suspended from tensioned wires . . . a cheerless, artless, patronising inflatable Bambi of cynical, witless dross".
• Ian Fleming in guardian.co.uk
  The political situation was as cheerless as the weather,said Ian Fleming, played by Martin Jarvis to sound like Martin Amis in a stinking mood.