“bleak”

Definitions

• adjective

  offering little or no hope

  Synonyms: black, dim, siberian, affecting, afflictive, algid, apathetic, arctic, austere, bare, barren, biting

  • Example:“The future looked black.”
  • Example:“Prospects were bleak.”

• adjective

  providing no shelter or sustenance

  Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark

  • Example:“bare rocky hills”
  • Example:“barren lands”

• adjective

  unpleasantly cold and damp

  Synonyms: cutting, raw

  • Example:“bleak winds of the North Atlantic”