ˈbæɹən blæk ˈkʌtɪŋ dɪm

ɹɔː ɹɔ ɹɒ offering little or no hope the future looked black prospects were bleak Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult took a dim view of things providing no shelter or sustenance bare rocky hills barren lands the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes the desolate surface of the moon a stark landscape unpleasantly cold and damp bleak winds of the North Atlantic