Term: bleak
bleak (adjective) /bliːk/
Similar to: gloomy; desolate; hopeless; cheerless; cold
Definition: Lacking in warmth, life, or hope; cold, miserable, suggesting a very dark and pessimistic future.
Translation: drūms, bezcerīgs, drēgns, kails, pamests
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
bleak (adjective)1.
exposed and barren and often windswept
2.
- cold raw a bleak November evening
3.
a) lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness - grim
b) not hopeful or encouraging - depressing a bleak outlook
c) severely simple or austere DISMAL
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
bleak (adjective)1.
causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer
SYNONYMS:
black, bleak, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich, elegiac ( elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray ( grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber ( sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretchedRELATED WORDS:
blue, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, down, droopy, hangdog, inconsolable, low, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, sad, unhappy, woebegone, woeful; dim, discomfiting, discouraging, disheartening, dismaying, dispiriting, distressful, distressing, upsetting; desperate, hopeless, pessimistic; lamentable, mournful, plaintive, sorrowful; colorless, drab, dull; dour, grim, lowering ( louring), lowery ( loury), menacing, negative, oppressive, threateningNEAR ANTONYMS:
blithe, blithesome, buoyant, gay, jocund, jolly, joyful, joyous, merry, mirthful; encouraging, hopeful, optimistic; lighthearted, lightsome2.
marked by wet and windy conditions
SYNONYMS:
bleak, dirty, inclement, nasty, raw, rough, squally, stormy, tempestuous, turbulentRELATED WORDS:
blowy, blustering, blustery, breezy, gusty, windblown, windswept; cloudy, overcast, sunless; rainy, snowy; foggy, hazy, misty, murky, soupyNEAR ANTONYMS:
rainless; balmy, calm, halcyon, peaceful, placid, pleasant, serene3.
uncomfortably cool
SYNONYMS:
bitter, bleak, chill, chilling, nipping, nippy, raw, sharpRELATED WORDS:
bracing, brisk, crisp, invigorating, rigorous, snappy; arctic, bitter, cold, coolish, freezing, frigid, frosty, glacial, ice-cold, icy, numbing, polar, shivery, wintry ( wintery); subfreezing, subzero; frore, frosted, frozen, iced, refrigerated, unheatedNEAR ANTONYMS:
balmy, warm; lukewarm, tepid; heated, warmed