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bleak

adjective

1 bleak

Offering little or no hope:
— Prospects were bleak.
— Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult.

synonyms: black, dim.

2 bleak

Providing no shelter or sustenance:
— The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes.

synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark.

3 bleak

Unpleasantly cold and damp:
— Bleak winds of the North Atlantic.

synonyms: cutting, raw.

Roget 383: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, ... show more


Moby thesaurus: Siberian, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, algid, apathetic, arctic, austere, bare, barren, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, black, blown, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheerless ... show more.

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