Definition of "bleak" in English

adjective

1. Without color; pale; pallid.

2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

   • a bleak and bare rock
   • a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
   • They escaped across the bleak landscape.
   • We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.

3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

   • Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
   • A bleak future is in store for you.
   • The news is bleak.
   • The survey paints a bleak picture.

noun

1. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.