Adjective
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unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
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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"
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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"