0 If a place is bleak, it is empty, and not welcoming or attractive: --
1 (esp. of a place or the weather) cold and not welcoming: --
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.
The prospects for developing countries initiating control programmes de novo are bleak.
They're very bleak and very personal pictures of a corrupt world in which he felt he was living.
Very poor people, after all, are widely held to conduct bleak but essentially uncomplicated lives.
The novel fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film.
Many of the respondents noted a need for outside stimulation to take the men's minds off their bodies and potentially bleak prospects.
Even in the 1930s, housing conditions were bleak but with the growth of population they deteriorated further.
There are brilliant individual scholars sprinkled over the country, but the overall picture is bleak.
More pertinently, the prospects for a public education strategy which would bring subjective and objective risk into step seem pretty bleak.
