1. Offering little or no hope
   "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
   - black, dim 
2. Providing no shelter or sustenance
   "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
   - bare, barren, desolate, stark 
3. Unpleasantly cold and damp
   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
   - cutting, raw

Derived forms: bleaker, bleakest

See also: bleakly, bleakness, cold, hopeless, inhospitable

Encyclopedia: Bleak

• carelessness
• Carelian
• carer
• caress
• caressing
• caret
• caretaker
• Caretta
• Caretta caretta
• Carew
• careworn
• Carex
• Carex arenaria
• Carex pseudocyperus
• carfare
• carful
• cargo
• cargo area
• cargo container
• cargo cult
• cargo deck
• cargo door
• cargo hatch
• cargo helicopter
• cargo hold