bleak
adjective
[ bliːk ]
• (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.
• "a bleak and barren moor"
Similar:
bare,
exposed,
desolate,
stark,
arid,
desert,
denuded,
lunar,
open,
empty,
windswept,
treeless,
forestless,
without vegetation,
defoliated,
unsheltered,
unprotected,
unshielded,
unwooded,
Origin:
Old English blāc ‘shining, white’, or in later use from synonymous Old Norse bleikr ; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to bleach.
bleak
noun
• a small silvery shoaling fish of the carp family, found in Eurasian rivers.
Origin:
late 15th century: from Old Norse bleikja .
