Bleak vs. Dismal

Bleakadjective

Without color; pale; pallid.

Bleakadjective

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Bleakadjective

Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Bleaknoun

A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

Bleakadjective

Without color; pale; pallid.

Bleakadjective

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Bleakadjective

Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

Bleaknoun

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

Bleakadjective

offering little or no hope;

Bleakadjective

providing no shelter or sustenance;

Bleakadjective

unpleasantly cold and damp;

Dismaladjective

Disappointingly inadequate.

Dismaladjective

Gloomy and bleak.

Dismaladjective

Depressing.

Dismaladjective

Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

Dismaladjective

Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

Dismaladjective

depressing in character or appearance;

Dismaladjective

causing dejection;