1. (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds\.

2. (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

3. (n.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

Siberian affecting afflictive affording no hope algid apathetic arctic austere bare barren below zero biting bitter bitterly cold black blown boreal brisk brumal cheerless chilly cold cold as charity cold as death cold as ice cold as marble comfortless crisp cutting dark deplorable depressing depressive desolate despairing desperate despondent discomforting disconsolate disheartening dismal dismaying distressful distressing dolorific dolorogenic dolorous dour drear drearisome dreary exposed forlorn freezing freezing cold frigid funebrial funereal gelid glacial gloomy grave gray grievous grim hard harsh hibernal hiemal hopeless hyperborean ice-cold ice-encrusted icelike icy in despair inclement joyless keen lamentable melancholy mournful moving nipping nippy numbing oppressive painful pathetic penetrating piercing pinching piteous pitiable poignant raw regrettable rigorous rueful sad saddening saturnine severe sharp sleety slushy snappy solemn somber sombrous sore sorrowful stone-cold stringent subzero supercooled touching triste uncomfortable unhappy unhopeful weariful wearisome weary windblown windswept winterbound winterlike wintery wintry without hope woebegone woeful wretched