bleakadjective
uk/bliːk/us/bliːk/C2 If a place is bleak, it is empty, and not welcoming or attractive:
The house stands on a bleak, windswept hilltop.
Bleak weather is cold and unpleasant.
C2 If a situation is bleak, there is little or no hope for the future:
The economic outlook is bleak.
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Describing bad weather
- break
- depression
- dreich
- fickle
- grey
- hard
- hostile
- inclement
- murk
- murky
- overcast
- rough
- sock
- sock sth/sb in (with sb)
- sunless
- treacherous
- trough
- unseasonable
- unseasonal
- wuthering
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Not attractive to look at
Not hopeful
bleakness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈbliːk.nəs/us/ˈbliːk.nəs/