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bleak

• (s) 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
  black, dim,
• (s) 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
  barren, desolate, stark, bare,
• (s) unpleasantly cold and damp
  • bleak winds of the North Atlantic
  cutting, raw,

Synonyms

black dim barren desolate stark bare cutting raw

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