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bleak

/bliːk/
adjective
  1. Without color; pale; pallid.

  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

    "A bleak and bare rock."

  3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

    "A bleak future is in store for you."

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