The adj bleak has 3 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (2) 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. (1) 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")