bleak

Short definition from Wiktionary

Adjective

1. 1
   Without color; pale; pallid.
2. 2
   Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
3. 3
   Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Noun

1. 1
   A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.