bleak

Adjective
  1. Offering little or no hope (synset 301232434)
    "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things"
    similar to: hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success
    same as: black, dim
  2. Providing no shelter or sustenance (synset 301245624)
    "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
    similar to: inhospitable - unfavorable to life or growth
    same as: bare, barren, desolate, stark
  3. Unpleasantly cold and damp (synset 301255471)
    "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
    similar to: cold - having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration
    same as: cutting, raw

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