Akademik

bleak
I (exposed and barren) adjective bare, barren, blank, cold, deserted, desolate, exposed, unpopulated, unsheltered, waste II (not favorable) adjective dark, depressing, disheartening, dismal, distressing, forbidding, gloomy, grave, grim, inauspicious, joyless, ominous, somber, sombrous, unfavorable III (severely simple) adjective austere, cheerless, cold, comfortless, depressing, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, dull, gloomy, grim, joyless, somber, sombrous, uninviting IV index devoid, jejune (dull)

Burton's Legal Thesaurus. . 2006