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How to sign: 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";
How to sign: 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";
Similiar / Same: barren, desolate, stark, bare
How to sign: unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic";