bleak

6 definitions • 6 examples

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.

If a situation is bleak, there is little or no hope for the future:

The economic outlook is bleak.

(esp. of a place or the weather) cold and not welcoming:

It was a bleak, unpleasant day in December.

Bleak also means without hope:

With no job, the future looked bleak.

not giving much hope for the future:

Their long-term prospects appear bleak.

In a bleak assessment of the coming months, they said market conditions were almost certain to remain challenging.