bleak
/bliːk/ adjective C1- Without color; pale; pallid.
- Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. · a bleak and bare rock· a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
- Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. · Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.· A bleak future is in store for you.
Comparative bleaker · Superlative bleakest
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It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
It was a bleak and boisterous night and the wind whistled shrilly down the long street.
And yet it cannot be denied that the prosperity of the whole poor, bleak countryside depends upon his presence.
The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders.
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