bleak
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adjective \ˈblēk\Definition of BLEAK
1
: exposed and barren and often windswept
3
a : lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness : grim b : not hopeful or encouraging : depressing <a bleak outlook> c : severely simple or austere
— bleak·ly adverb
— bleak·ness noun
See Examples of BLEAK
- <a bleak outlook for the team for the rest of the season>
- <it was a dark and bleak wintry day>
Origin of BLEAK
Middle English bleke pale; probably akin to Old English blāc
First Known Use: 1574
Related to BLEAK
- Synonyms
- black, gloomy, cheerless, chill, Cimmerian, cloudy, cold, comfortless, dark, darkening, depressing, depressive, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dreich [chiefly Scottish], elegiac (also elegiacal), forlorn, funereal, glum, godforsaken, gray (also grey), lonely, lonesome, lugubrious, miserable, morbid, morose, murky, plutonian, saturnine, sepulchral, solemn, somber (or sombre), sullen, sunless, tenebrific, tenebrous, wretched
- Antonyms
- bright, cheerful, cheering, cheery, comforting, cordial, festive, friendly, gay, heartwarming, sunshiny
See Synonym Discussion at DISMAL
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