steely

bleak, cold, hostile, inhospitable, inimical, unfriendly, unsympathetic

adamant, bound, determined, firm, intent, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast, unflinching

fixed, hard, hardened, hardheaded, immovable, implacable, inflexible, ironhanded, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, rigid, self-willed, set, stiff, stubborn, unbending, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding, willful (or wilful)

immutable, unchangeable

black, cheerless, dark, gloomy, glum, joyless, melancholic, moody, morose, sulky, sullen, surly

brooding, grave, humorless, melancholy, serious, sober, sobersided, solemn, somber (or sombre), staid, unsmiling, weighty

achromatic, colorless, neutral

dirty, dull, faded, sad, washed-out

ashen, ashy, chalky, livid, mousy (or mousey), pale, palish, white, whitish

chocolate, dun, sandy, sepia

brindled (or brindle), grizzled, hoar, hoary