bleak

bleak [-er] adj

uncertain, poss. ON.

1. Barren; cold; empty; desolate; dreary; [fig.] weak; sickly; base; sinful; prone to wrongdoing.
2. Sad; mournful; cheerless; disconsolate.

bleak adv

see bleak, adj.

1. Miserably; despairingly; wretchedly; despondently; without hope.