n. 25B6; adjective
a bleak landscape : BARE, exposed, desolate, stark, desert, lunar, open, empty, windswept; treeless, without vegetation, denuded.
the future is bleak : UNPROMISING, unfavourable, unpropitious, inauspicious; discouraging, disheartening, depressing, dim, gloomy, black, dark, grim, hopeless.
lush, promising.