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Meaning of 'bleak'
Meaning of 'bleak' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Bleak 
[ a.]
- Without color; pale; pallid. [ a.]- Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
- Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
- A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
Meaning of 'bleak' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. bleak [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- providing no shelter or sustenance
- providing no shelter or sustenance
Example in sentence:
- a stark landscape;
- bare rocky hills;
- barren lands;
- the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes;
- the desolate surface of the moon
Meaning (2):
- unpleasantly cold and damp
- unpleasantly cold and damp
Example in sentence:
- bleak winds of the North Atlantic
Meaning (3):
- offering little or no hope
- offering little or no hope
Example in sentence:
- Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult;
- prospects were bleak;
- the future looked black;
- took a dim view of things
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