definition of
bleak

[1] #1 bleak s. [black, dim] 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". wn

[2] #2 bleak s. [bare, barren, desolate, stark] 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". wn

[3] #3 bleak s. [cutting, raw] unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic". wn