Bleak

//bliːk//

Definitions

1
Without color; pale; pallid.
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
Similar
pasty sallow ashen
2
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
a bleak and bare rock
3
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
Similar
dismal lugubrious cheerless

1
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
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ablet

Word Origin

From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, b...

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Bleak

//bliːk//

Definitions

adjbleaker · bleakest

1
Without color; pale; pallid.
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
Similar
pasty sallow ashen
2
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
a bleak and bare rock
3
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
Similar
dismal lugubrious cheerless

nounbleaks · bleak

1
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
Similar
ablet

Word Origin

From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, b...

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