cold and cheerless
not hopeful or encouraging
"the future looked black"
"prospects were bleak"
"Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
"took a dim view of things"
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
"the desolate surface of the moon"
"a stark landscape"
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
Toano, a little station on a bleak, high-lying plateau in Nevada.
出自: R. L. Stevenson