| Main Entry: | bleak |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | barren |
Synonyms: |
austere, bare, blank, blighted, bombed, bulldozed, burned, chilly, cleared, cold, deforested, desert, deserted, desolate, dreary, exposed, flat, gaunt, grim, open, raw, scorched, stripped, unpopulated, unsheltered, weather-beaten, wild, windswept |
Antonyms: |
appealing, bright, comfortable, nice, pleasant, sunny |
| Main Entry: | decrepit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deteriorated, debilitated, especially as a result of age |
Synonyms: |
aged, anile, antiquated, battered, bedraggled, broken-down, creaky, crippled, dilapidated, doddering, effete, feeble, flimsy, fragile, frail, haggard, incapacitated, infirm, insubstantial, old, quavering, ramshackle, rickety, run-down, seedy, senile, shabby, shaking, superannuated, tacky, threadbare, tired, tottering, tumble-down, unsound, used, wasted, weak, weakly, weather-beaten, worn, worn-out |
Antonyms: |
fit, healthy, young |
| Main Entry: | gnarled |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | knotted |
Synonyms: |
bent, contorted, crooked, deformed, distorted, gnarly, knurled, leathery, out of shape, rough, rugged, tortured, twisted, weather-beaten, wrinkled |
Antonyms: |
straight, unbent, uncurled, untwisted |
| Main Entry: | rugged |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bumpy, weathered |
Synonyms: |
asperous, broken, coarse, craggy, difficult, furrowed, harsh, hilly, irregular, jagged, leathery, lumpy, mountainous, ragged, rocky, rough, roughhewn, scabrous, scraggy, stark, uneven, unlevel, unpolished, unrefined, unsmooth, weather-beaten, worn, wrinkled |
Antonyms: |
even, flat, level, smooth |
| Main Entry: | weather-beaten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn |
Synonyms: |
battered, damaged, decayed, weathered, weatherworn, worn down |
| Main Entry: | weather-beaten |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | toughened |
Synonyms: |
bronzed, coarsened, damaged, roughened, rugged, sunburned, tanned |