a. | 1. | Without color; pale; pallid. |
2. | Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. | |
3. | Cold and cutting; cheerless; | |
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" |
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" | |
3. | bleak - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" |