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1. (adj.) bleak
bare, desolate, and often windswept:
a bleak plain.
2. bleak
cold and piercing; raw:
a bleak wind.
3. bleak
without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary:
a bleak future.
Etymology: (1300–50; ME bleke pale, b. variants bleche (OE blæmacr;c) and blake (OE blāc))
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| Definition of 'bleak' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (adj) black, bleak, dim
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"
2. (adj) bare, barren, bleak, desolate, stark
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"
3. (adj) bleak, cutting, raw
unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
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1. (adjective) bleak
without hope
a bleak, lonely life
2. bleak
unpleasant and bare
the bleak landscape
3. bleak
unpleasantly cold
a bleak winter day; She looked at me bleakly.; the bleakness of the landscape
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| Definition of 'bleak' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) bleak
without color; pale; pallid
2. (adj) bleak
desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds
3. (adj) bleak
cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast
4. (adj) bleak
a small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay
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Sense: cold and unsheltered
a bleak landscape.
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 Afrikaans: onbeskutte |
 Arabic: قارسٌ، موحِشٌ |
 Bulgarian: пуст |
 Brazilian: sombrio |
 Czech: pustý, holý, ponurý |
 German: öde |
 Danish: kold og forblæst; dyster; |
 Greek: κρύος, απροστάτευτος, ανε |
 Spanish: inhóspito, desolado |
 Estonian: kõle |
 Farsi: در معرض باد و سرما؛ بی حف |
 Finnish: suojaton |
 French: désolé |
 Hebrew: קַר וְשוֹמֵם |
 Hindi: सर्द |
 Croatian: ogoljen |
 Hungarian: sivár |
 Indonesian: gersang, suram |
 Icelandic: hrjóstrugur |
 Italian: desolato |
 Japanese: 荒涼とした |
 Korean: 을씨년스러운 |
 Lithuanian: plikas, niūrus |
 Latvian: neaizsargāts; kails; nemī |
 Malay: tandus dan keanginan |
 Dutch: guur, kaal |
 Norwegian: kald og forblåst |
 Polish: nagi, posępny |
 Persian: در معرض باد و سرما؛ بی حف |
 Pashto: د باد اویخنی سره مخامخ، |
 Portuguese: sombrio |
 Romanian: pustiu |
 Russian: унылый |
 Slovak: pustý, holý |
 Slovenian: pust |
 Serbian: goletan |
 Swedish: kal,öppen, blåsig |
 Thai: หนาวและไม่มีที่ปกคลุม |
 Turkish: soğuk ve korunmasız, çıpl |
 Taiwanese: 荒涼的 |
 Ukrainian: похмурий, голий |
 Urdu: نہایت سرد موسم |
 Vietnamese: l��nh lẽo |
 Chinese: 荒凉的 |
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