bleakest

ADJECTIVE

barren

Synonyms

STRONGEST

austere chilly cold desolate dreary grim

WEAK

bare blank blighted bombed bulldozed burned cleared deforested desert deserted exposed flat gaunt open raw scorched stripped unpopulated unsheltered weather-beaten wild windswept

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bright cheerful friendly happy hot sympathetic warm

WEAK

appealing comfortable comforting congenial encouraging nice pleasant sunny

ADJECTIVE

depressing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dark dismal dreary gloomy grim harsh lonely sad somber

WEAK

black cheerless comfortless discouraging disheartening drear funereal hard hopeless joyless melancholy mournful oppressive unpromising

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bright cheerful encouraging glad happy hopeful joyful light pleasant sunny

WEAK

appealing comfortable comforting congenial nice

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bleakest

When I graduated from UC–Berkeley with my “useless” comparative literature degree, into one of the bleakest job markets in recent American memory, I thought to myself, There must be a loophole somewhere.

From Slate ● Mar. 20, 2026

Instead, millions of university graduates are entering the bleakest job market in years.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Since this scene plays more than halfway through the second season in an episode called “Last Drink,” we recognize this as the bleakest version of “famous last words.”

From Salon ● Dec. 14, 2024

David Muhammad, executive director of the Oakland-based National Institute for Criminal Justice Reform, rejects the bleakest depictions of the city where he grew up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024

His music was what had brightened the bleakest days of his boyhood.

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown