bleak
bleak [-er] adj
uncertain, poss. ON.
- Barren; cold; empty; desolate; dreary; [fig.] weak; sickly; base; sinful; prone to wrongdoing.
- Sad; mournful; cheerless; disconsolate.
bleak adv
see bleak, adj.
- Miserably; despairingly; wretchedly; despondently; without hope.