Definitions for bleak
blikbleak

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:5.0 / 1 vote

1. black, bleak, dimadjective

   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. bare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective

   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. bleak, cutting, rawadjective

   unpleasantly cold and damp

   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BLEAKadjective

   Etymology: blac, blæc, Saxon.

   1. Pale.2. Cold; chill.

   Intreat the north
   To make his bleak winds kiss my parched lips,
   And comfort me with cold. William Shakespeare, King John.

   The goddess that in rural shrine
   Dwell’st here with Pan, or Sylvan, by blest song
   Forbidding every bleak unkindly fog
   To touch the prosperous growth of this tall wood. John Milton.

   Her desolation presents us with nothing but bleak and barren prospects. Joseph Addison, Spectator, №. 477.

   Say, will ye bless the bleak Atlantick shore,
   Or bid the furious Gaul be rude no more. Alexander Pope.

2. Bleaknoun

   A small river fish.

   Etymology: from his white or bleak colour.

   The bleak, or freshwater sprat, is ever in motion, and therefore called by some the river swallow. His back is a pleasant, sad sea water green; his belly white and shining like the mountain snow. Bleaks are excellent meat, and in best season in August. Izaak Walton, Angler.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bleak

   Bleak is an adjective that describes something as barren, desolate, or without hope, usually referring to a situation, place, or outlook. It typically suggests a lack of warmth, comfort, or optimism.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. Bleakadjective

   without color; pale; pallid

2. Bleakadjective

   desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds

3. Bleakadjective

   cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast

4. Bleakadjective

   a small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Bleak

   blēk, adj. colourless: dull and cheerless: cold, unsheltered.—adv. Bleak′ly.—n. Bleak′ness. [A.S. blæc, blâc, pale, shining; a different word from blac (without accent), black. The root is blican, to shine.]

2. Bleak

   blēk, n. a small white river-fish.

Dictionary of Nautical TermsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bleak

   The Leuciscus alburnus of naturalists, and the fresh-water sprat of Isaak Walton. The name of this fish is from the Anglo-Saxon blican, owing to its shining whiteness--its lustrous scales having long been used in the manufacture of false pearls.

Suggested ResourcesRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. bleak

   Song lyrics by bleak -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by bleak on the Lyrics.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. BLEAK

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Bleak is ranked #52169 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Bleak surname appeared 398 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Bleak.
   
   94.2% or 375 total occurrences were White.
   4.5% or 18 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

Anagrams for bleak »

1. blake

2. kabel

How to pronounce bleak?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say bleak in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bleak in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of bleak in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of bleak in a Sentence

1. Shannen Doherty:

   Back in March of this year, I was diagnosed with a rare, very aggressive form of ovarian cancer, if you read the statistics, it is very bleak. Good thing I don’t believe in statistics! I had surgery and now I am having chemo treatments. I have since grown more tumors and it is going to be more of a battle than I anticipated, but I have a huge faith in the healing power of God and the healing power within me that originates from my God. I look towards a future when I am completely healed and cancer free. I ask for prayers of strength and courage as this journey continues.

2. Jan Egeland:

   2021 was, as we documented here, a very bleak year and 2022( is looking) even worse.

3. Dan Fogelman:

   I think there's like 10 critics out there who want things to be withholding and bleak, but I think the average human being and the average human experience is wildly big and emotional and dramatic, i mean, I think we have parents and families and kids. We go to weddings, we go to funerals, we have births of children. We love.... The human experience is like, it is like a beautiful, sad, emotional experience.

4. Joe Stork:

   The humanitarian picture in Falluja is bleak and getting bleaker, greater international attention to the besieged towns and cities of the region is needed or the results for civilians could be calamitous.

5. Jake Dollarhide:

   I wasn't interested in a lot of these companies at their IPO prices, but now that they're down 30 or 40 percent, they're interesting to me, i'm in the business of buying when things look bleak.

Popularity rank by frequency of use

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=bleak
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=bleak
3. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bleak
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=bleak
6. ^ Dictionary of Nautical Terms
   https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26000/pg26000-images.html#:~:text=bleak
7. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html