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Meaning of 'bleak' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Bleak [ a.]
- Without color; pale; pallid.
- 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]
Meaning (1):
- 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
Example in sentence:
  • bleak winds of the North Atlantic
Meaning (3):
- 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

Nearby Words:

blea bleaberry bleach bleached bleacher bleacheries bleachery bleaching bleaky blear

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