Adjective bleak has 3 senses
- black, bleak, dim - 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"
Antonym: hopeful (indirect, via hopeless)
- bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark - 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"
Antonym: hospitable (indirect, via inhospitable)
- bleak, cutting, raw - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
Antonym: hot (indirect, via cold)
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