0 If a place is bleak, it is empty, and not welcoming or attractive:
2 not giving much hope for the future:
In a bleak assessment of the coming months, they said market conditions were almost certain to remain challenging.
Even in the bleakest of times she not only keeps herself going but encourages others around her never to give up hope.
Most journalists and military historians, however, paint a bleaker picture.
The ' deprived ' dimension paints a bleak assessment, and includes deprivation, graffiti, lack of safety and unfriendly [people].
Rather than the stereotypical merry sidekick, this interpretation gave us a much bleaker, more passionate character.
To this bleak picture there were exceptions, however.
The situation became even bleaker after the war.
The hallways are clean, without graffiti, and violence-free, contrasting with the bleak and violence-ridden surrounding urban environment.
More pertinently, the prospects for a public education strategy which would bring subjective and objective risk into step seem pretty bleak.
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(地方)荒涼的, 淒涼的, (天氣)陰冷的…
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(地方)荒凉的, 凄凉的, (天气)阴冷的…
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gris, inhóspito, desalentador/ora [masculine-feminine]…
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triste, desanimado, deserto…
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希望のない, (見通しが)暗い, 寒々とした…
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umutsuz, gelecek vaad etmeyen, soğuk…
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désolé/-ée, morne, sombre…
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poc prometedor, inhòspit…
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