a.
1.
Close, firm, cohesive.
2.
Serious, sedate, grave, staid, sober, sombre, saturnine.
3.
Sorrowful, melancholy, mournful, downcast, afflicted, heavy, disconsolate, despondent, depressed, dejected, cheerless.
4.
Gloomy, dismal, doleful, mournful, lugubrious, woe-begone, dull.
5.
Grievous, afflictive calamitous, disastrous, dire, deplorable.
6.
Bad, naughty, vexatious, wicked, troublesome, mischievous.
7.
Dark, sombre.