- Austere
- Barren
- Cheerless
- Desolate
- Dreary
- dreary miserable
- Dull and cheerless
- Bleak
- Cheerless
- Forbidding
- Grave
- Hard to steer away after seeing gold
- Harsh
- Harsh in manner
- Dreariest
- Most cheerless
- Most windswept
- More bleak
- More cheerless