Definition of 'bleak'

Adjective

1. 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
2. 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
3. unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
      Synonyms: cutting raw

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