bleak

adjectives

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"
black, bleak, dim
is derived from
bleakness
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"
bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
is derived from
bleakness
unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
bleak, cutting, raw
is derived from
bleakness