bleak
1. [ adjective ] offering little or no hope
Synonyms: black dim
Examples:

"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"

Related terms: hopeless
2. [ adjective ] providing no shelter or sustenance
Synonyms: desolate barren stark bare
Examples:

"bare rocky hills" "barren lands" "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" "the desolate surface of the moon" "a stark landscape"

Related terms: inhospitable
3. [ adjective ] unpleasantly cold and damp
Synonyms: raw cutting
Examples:

"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

Related terms: cold
Similar spelling:   black
  Blake
  Blakey
  Blasko
  blok
  Blas
  blue_sky
  blue_ash
  blahs
  Blais
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  blues
  blaze
  Blick
  block
  bloke
  Blose
  Blagg
  bleach
  Blasco
  blocky
  Blaize
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  Blecha
  blouse
  blueish
  Blausey