bleak | ||
1. | [ adjective ] offering little or no hope | |
Synonyms: | black dim | |
Examples: | "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" |
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Related terms: | hopeless | |
2. | [ adjective ] providing no shelter or sustenance | |
Synonyms: | desolate barren stark bare | |
Examples: | "bare rocky hills" "barren lands" "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" "the desolate surface of the moon" "a stark landscape" |
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Related terms: | inhospitable | |
3. | [ adjective ] unpleasantly cold and damp | |
Synonyms: | raw cutting | |
Examples: | "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" |
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Related terms: | cold | |
Similar spelling: |
black Blake Blakey Blasko blok Blas blue_sky blue_ash blahs Blais blase Blash Blasi Blass blues blaze Blick block bloke Blose Blagg bleach Blasco blocky Blaize Blaise Blecha blouse blueish Blausey |