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1. Offering little or no hope
   "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
   - black, dim
    
2. Providing no shelter or sustenance
   "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
   - bare, barren, desolate, stark
    
3. Unpleasantly cold and damp
   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
   - cutting, raw

Derived forms: bleaker, bleakest

See also: bleakly, bleakness, cold, hopeless, inhospitable

Encyclopedia: Bleak