bleak

Meanings

• offering little or no hope; ; ; - J.M.Synge
  • "prospects were bleak"
  • "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
• providing no shelter or sustenance
  • "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
• unpleasantly cold and damp
  • "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

Synonyms

bare, barren, black, cutting, desolate, dim, raw, stark