Bleak a.
1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. --Foxe.
2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Wastes too bleak to rear
The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. --Wordsworth.
At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. --Longfellow.
3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
-- Bleak*ish, a. -- Bleak*ly, adv. -- Bleak*ness, n.