What is the meaning of bleak?

adjective

• Offering little or no hope.
  • usage: "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult- J. M. Synge; "took a dim view of things"
  • synonyms: black, dim
• Providing no shelter or sustenance.
  • usage: "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
  • synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark
• Unpleasantly cold and damp.
  • usage: "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
  • synonyms: cutting, raw