"bleaker" in the adjective sense
1. black, bleak, dim
offering little or no hope
"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"
2. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"
"barren lands"
"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
"the desolate surface of the moon"
"a stark landscape"
3. bleak, cutting, raw
unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
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