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Bleak
• If an area is bleak, it is vacant and neither friendly nor appealing.
• Bleak weather is chilly and uncomfortable.
• If things look bleak or the situation is bleak, there isn’t much or any hope for the future.
Pronunciation: bleek
e.g., The mansion is situated on a bleak, windswept mountaintop.
The outlook of our present economic condition is bleak.