bleak (adj.)
- affecting
- afflictive
- algid
- apathetic
- arctic
- austere
- bare
- barren
- biting
- bitter
- black
- blown
- boreal
- brisk
- brumal
- cheerless
- chilly
- cold
- comfortless
- crisp
- cutting
- dark
- deplorable
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- despairing
- desperate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- disheartening
- dismal
- dismaying
- distressful
- distressing
- dolorous
- dour
- drear
- dreary
- exposed
- forlorn
- frigid
- funereal
- gelid
- glacial
- gloomy
- grave
- gray
- grievous
- grim
- hard
- harsh
- hibernal
- hiemal
- hopeless
- ice-cold
- icelike
- icy
- inclement
- joyless
- keen
- lamentable
- melancholy
- mournful
- moving
- nipping
- nippy
- numbing
- oppressive
- painful
- pathetic
- penetrating
- piercing
- pinching
- piteous
- pitiable
- poignant
- raw
- regrettable
- rigorous
- rueful
- sad
- saturnine
- severe
- sharp
- sleety
- slushy
- snappy
- solemn
- somber
- sore
- sorrowful
- stone-cold
- stringent
- touching
- uncomfortable
- unhappy
- unhopeful
- wearisome
- weary
- windblown
- windswept
- wintery
- wintry
- woebegone
- woeful
- wretched
Behold how brightly breaks the morning!
Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm.
