bleak

/bliːk/ adjective

Definition

› not giving much hope for the future: Their long-term prospects appear bleak. In a bleak assessment of the coming months, they said market conditions were almost certain to remain challenging.

(Definition of bleak adjective from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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