Meaning & Definition of Bleak in English

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. Unpleasantly cold and damp

• "Bleak winds of the north atlantic"