W: (adj) bleak [Related to: bleakness] (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"
W: (adj) bleak [Related to: bleakness] (offering little or no hope) "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
W: (adj) bleak [Related to: bleakness] (unpleasantly cold and damp) "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
W: (v) desolate [Related to: desolation] (cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly) "The enemy lay waste to the countryside after the invasion"
S: (n) openness, nakedness (characterized by an attitude of ready accessibility (especially about one's actions or purposes); without concealment; not secretive)