Definitions
offering little or no hope
Word origin
From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, blǣċ, blāc (“bleak, pale, pallid”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), all from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”).
Used in a sentence
“When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.”
“a bleak and bare rock”
“a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Coldly desolate”5 letters
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