bleak

[Bleak]

Something that is bleak is gloomy and depressing. If it's raining and dark, you might describe the night as bleak. If you have looked for work and no one will hire you, you could describe your prospects as bleak.

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Without color; pale; pallid.

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
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"

Adjective S.
unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

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Without color; pale; pallid.

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Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

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Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

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

Bleak

Bleak , a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. bl'bec, blc, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. blk, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. bl'c6can to shine; akin to OHG. bl'c6chen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. to burn, shine, Skr. bhr'bej 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.

2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

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

At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.

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

Bleak

Bleak, n. [From Bleak, a., cf. Blay.] (Zo'94l.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinid'91; the blay. [Written also blick.] &hand; The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. Baird.

Without color; pale; pallid.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinid'91; the blay.

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Usage Examples

I honestly don't know, but if America continues to refuse to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions, I see a bleak future not only for American society, but for the world as a whole. This is a global problem that is not going away, and the United States is an obstacle to solving it.

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Other Usage Examples

Bleak House is just the most astounding piece of work. There's huge, visionary poetry in it.