bleak

About 2.56 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Without color; pale; pallid.
2. adjective Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

   a bleak and bare rock

3. adjective Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

   Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.

4. noun A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

Similar words

hopeless desolate black stark barren inhospitable bare dim raw cutting

Often followed by

and house as picture future for winter in landscape

Word family

bleaker bleakest bleakish bleakly bleakness bleaknesses