bleak

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adjective

1. offering little or no hope (Freq. 2)
- 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
• Syn:
black, dim
• Similar to:
hopeless
• Derivationally related forms:
bleakness
2. providing no shelter or sustenance (Freq. 1)
- bare rocky hills
- barren lands
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
- the desolate surface of the moon
- a stark landscape
• Syn:
bare, barren, desolate, stark
• Similar to:
inhospitable
• Derivationally related forms:
starkness (for: stark), bleakness, barren (for: barren), barrenness (for: barren), bareness (for: bare)
3. unpleasantly cold and damp
- bleak winds of the North Atlantic
• Syn:
cutting, raw
• Similar to:
cold
• Derivationally related forms:
rawness (for: raw), bleakness

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  cutting, raw, bare, barren, desolate, stark, black, dim