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Meaning of bleak

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  bleak
      adj 1: 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" [syn: {black}, {bleak}, {dim}]
      2: 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" [syn: {bare}, {barren}, {bleak}, {desolate},
         {stark}]
      3: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
         Atlantic" [syn: {bleak}, {cutting}, {raw}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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