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Bleak

Bleak Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Bleak? [adj] offering little or no hope; "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" [adj] providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape" [adj] unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Bleak: bare \| barren \| black \| cold \| cutting \| desolate \| dim \| hopeless \| inhospitable \| raw \| stark Related Terms \| Find terms related to Bleak: affecting \| afflictive \| affording no hope \| algid \| apathetic \| arctic \| austere \| bare \| barren \| below zero \| biting \| bitter \| bitterly cold \| black \| blown \| boreal \| brisk \| brumal \| cheerless \| chilly \| cold \| cold as charity \| cold as death \| cold as ice \| cold as marble \| comfortless \| crisp \| cutting \| dark \| deplorable \| depressing \| depressive \| desolate \| despairing \| desperate \| despondent \| discomforting \| disconsolate \| disheartening \| dismal \| dismaying \| distressful \| distressing \| dolorific \| dolorogenic \| dolorous \| dour \| drear \| drearisome \| dreary \| exposed \| forlorn \| freezing \| freezing cold \| frigid \| funebrial \| funereal \| gelid \| glacial \| gloomy \| grave \| gray \| grievous \| grim \| hard \| harsh \| hibernal \| hiemal \| hopeless \| hyperborean \| ice-cold \| ice-encrusted \| icelike \| icy \| in despair \| inclement \| joyless \| keen \| lamentable \| melancholy \| mournful \| moving \| nipping \| nippy \| numbing \| oppressive \| painful \| pathetic \| penetrating \| piercing \| pinching \| piteous \| pitiable \| poignant \| raw \| regrettable \| rigorous \| rueful \| sad \| saddening \| saturnine \| severe \| sharp \| Siberian \| sleety \| slushy \| snappy \| solemn \| somber \| sombrous \| sore \| sorrowful \| stone-cold \| stringent \| subzero \| supercooled \| touching \| triste \| uncomfortable \| unhappy \| unhopeful \| weariful \| wearisome \| weary \| windblown \| windswept \| winterbound \| winterlike \| wintery \| wintry \| without hope \| woebegone \| woeful \| wretched See Also \| Bleak In Webster's Dictionary \Bleak\, a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. bl[=a]c, bl?c, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl?k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. bl[=i]can to shine; akin to OHG. bl[=i]chen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. ? to burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to shine, and E. flame. ?98. Cf. {Bleach}, {Blink}, {Flame}.] 1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. --Foxe. 2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. --Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. --Longfellow. 3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. -- {Bleak"ish}, a. -- {Bleak"ly}, adv. -- {Bleak"ness}, n. \Bleak\, n. [From {Bleak}, a., cf. {Blay}.] (Zo["o]l.) A small European river fish ({Leuciscus alburnus}), of the family Cyprinid[ae]; the blay. [Written also {blick}.] Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. --Baird.

Bleak Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Bleak?

[adj] offering little or no hope; "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"
[adj] providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
[adj] unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

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Bleak In Webster's Dictionary

\Bleak\, a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. bl[=a]c, bl?c,
pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS.
bl?k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of
AS. bl[=i]can to shine; akin to OHG. bl[=i]chen to shine; cf.
L. flagrare to burn, Gr. ? to burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to
shine, and E. flame. ?98. Cf. {Bleach}, {Blink}, {Flame}.]
1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]

         When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as
         one that were laid out dead.          --Foxe.

2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

         Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth,
         the foodful ear.                      --Wordsworth.

         At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.  --Longfellow.

3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. --
   {Bleak"ish}, a. -- {Bleak"ly}, adv. -- {Bleak"ness}, n.


\Bleak\, n. [From {Bleak}, a., cf. {Blay}.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small European river fish ({Leuciscus alburnus}), of the
family Cyprinid[ae]; the blay. [Written also {blick}.]

Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is
      used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. --Baird.

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