bleak in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   bare  barren  bleak  desolate  stark 
   
2. 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"
   black  bleak  dim 
   
3. unpleasantly cold and damp
   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
   bleak  cutting  raw