Definition: offering little or no hope
Usage: 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
Main entry: desolate, bleak, bare, barren, stark
Definition: providing no shelter or sustenance
Usage: bare rocky hills; barren lands; the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes; the desolate surface of the moon; a stark landscape
Main entry: raw, bleak, cutting
Definition: unpleasantly cold and damp
Usage: bleak winds of the North Atlantic