bleak meaning and definition

BLEAK adjective

Definition of bleak (adjective)

1. 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"
   • synonyms: black, dim
2. 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"
   • synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark
3. unpleasantly cold and damp
   • "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
   • synonyms: cutting, raw