adjective
offering little or no hope
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- 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
adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
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- bare rocky hills
- barren lands
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
- the desolate surface of the moon
- a stark landscape
adjective
unpleasantly cold and damp
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- bleak winds of the North Atlantic