bleakest
Least cheerful outlook
Bleakest is the superlative of bleak—the most desolate, harsh, or hopeless.
It describes the extreme end of grimness: the bleakest winter on record, the bleakest chapter of her life.
A bleak outlook offers little hope; the bleakest offers none at all.
Beyond possibility of success
- despairingCompletely without hope
- grimHarsh and foreboding
- dismalDepressingly dark or dull
- direExtremely serious or urgent
pessimistic · depressing · sombre · mournful · cheerless · joyless · forlorn · wretched
Extremely and intensely cold
- freezingExtremely cold
- arcticOf extreme northern cold
- wintryCold and frosty
- bitterSharp, unpleasant taste
raw · biting · piercing · chilling · frostbitten · icy · glacial · subzero
Bleak and abandoned
- lifelessDevoid of animation
- bareLacking any covering
- starkSevere and unadorned
- emptyHolding nothing inside
wasteland · inhospitable · devoid · forsaken · abandoned · uninhabited · deserted · vacant
Harsh and foreboding
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- unpromisingShowing little potential
- ominousSuggesting something bad approaches
forbidding · discouraging · disheartening · pessimistic · dark · uncertain · troubling · daunting
hopeless
Beyond possibility of success
- despairingCompletely without hope
- grimHarsh and foreboding
- dismalDepressingly dark or dull
dire · pessimistic · depressing · sombre · mournful · cheerless · joyless · forlorn · wretched · miserable
frigid
Extremely and intensely cold
bitter · raw · biting · piercing · chilling · frostbitten · icy · glacial · subzero · numbing
desolate
Bleak and abandoned
empty · wasteland · inhospitable · devoid · forsaken · abandoned · uninhabited · deserted · vacant · stripped
grim
Harsh and foreboding
- direExtremely serious or urgent
- hopelessBeyond possibility of success
- unpromisingShowing little potential
ominous · forbidding · discouraging · disheartening · pessimistic · dark · uncertain · troubling · daunting · severe
- blackestdarkest, pitch-black, jet-black, coal-black, ebony