Bleak

a.	1.	Without color; pale; pallid. When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. - Foxe.
	2.	Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. - Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. - Longfellow.
	3.	Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
n.	1.	(Zool.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay.

Adj.	1.	bleak - 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" Synonyms: dim, black
	2.	bleak - 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" Synonyms: barren, desolate, stark, bare
	3.	bleak - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" Synonyms: cutting, raw

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