in the dumps

adj in the dumps

• austere — If you describe something as austere, you approve of its plain and simple appearance.
• black — lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
• bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
• blue — Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
• dark — When it is dark, there is not enough light to see properly, for example because it is night.