adjective
                                                offering little or no hope
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                                                                                                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
 
                                                                                        
                                                adjective
                                                providing no shelter or sustenance
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                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - 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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                                                                                                Examples
                                                
                                                                                                        - bleak winds of the North Atlantic