[adjective] offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things" Synonyms:black, dim
[adjective] providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" Synonyms:bare, barren, desolate, stark
[adjective] unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" Synonyms:cutting, raw
