bleak
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(satellite adjective) unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" |
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Synonyms: cutting, raw |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: black, dim |
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(satellite adjective) 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" |
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Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark |
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