Bleak

Exposed

Synonyms: Bare, desolate, arid, denuded, open, windswept, forestless, defoliated, unprotected, unwooded, exposed, stark, desert, lunar, empty, treeless, without vegetation, unsheltered, and unshielded.

Cold

Synonyms: Cold, raw, wintry, penetrating, nipping, sharp, icy, frosty, chilly, parky, chill, keen, harsh, piercing, biting, stinging, freezing, icy-cold, frigid, nippy, and Baltic.

Unfavourable

Synonyms: Unpromising, unpropitious, adverse, uninviting, disheartening, cheerless, gloomy, dreary, wretched, black, grim, portentous, hopeless, unfavourable, inauspicious, disadvantageous, discouraging, depressing, joyless, sombre, dismal, miserable, dark, drab, foreboding, and ominous.

Example Sentences

The landscape looked cold and bleak.

After the storm, the outlook was bleak.

The movie’s ending was unexpectedly bleak.

He felt a sense of bleak hopelessness.

The weather forecast predicted a bleak winter.