bleak1
  
  adj.
  - bare and exposed to the elements:![]()  a bleak moor. ▸charmless and inhospitable; dreary. ▸(of the weather) cold and miserable. 
- (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging.
Derivative
  
    - bleakly adv.
- bleakness n.
 
  Etymology
  OE blāc ‘shining, white’, or from ON bleikr; ult. of Gmc origin and rel. to bleach.
 
  
    
bleak2
  
  n.
 a small silvery river fish of the carp family. 
[
Alburnus alburnus and other species.]
Etymology
  C15: from ON bleikja.