1. The bottom line is even bleaker.

2. Horoscopes are merely harmless escapism from an ever-bleaker world.

3. Synonyms for Barrener include arider, bonier, deader, poorer, starker, barer, emptier, austerer, bleaker and harsher

4. Compound yields assume the reinvestment of dividends. For savers, the picture probably will get bleaker.

5. It could have shared the owner's adventures and vicissitudes, occupied his leisure hours, cheered his bleaker moments.

6. ‘The CD is a more personal affair, deep Cogitative blues mingling with the bleaker registers.’ ‘She was referring to something called Cogitative behavioral interventions that have been shown to be quite effective.’ ‘The results can disconcert, with their abstruse perspectives and Cogitative leaps.’