bleak

Adjective

• unpleasantly cold and damp
  • bleak winds of the North Atlantic
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

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• Synonyms: 
  cutting , raw , bare , barren , desolate , stark , black , dim