1. (

• black ,
• bleak ,
• dim

) 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" ;

2. (

• bare ,
• barren ,
• bleak ,
• desolate ,
• stark

) 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" ;

3. (

• bleak ,
• cutting ,
• raw

) unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" ;