Definition of bleak Bleak
/bliˈk/ - [bleek] - bleak
We found 16 definitions of bleak from 7 different sources.
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What does bleak mean?
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Adjectivebleak, bleaker, bleakest |
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| bleak - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic" | ||
| cutting, raw | ||
| cold lacking the warmth of life; "cold in his grave" | ||
| bleak - 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" | ||
| bare, barren, desolate, stark | ||
| inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth; "the barren inhospitable desert"; "inhospitable mountain areas" | ||
| bleak - 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" | ||
| black, dim | ||
| hopeless (informal to emphasize how bad it is) beyond hope of management or reform; "she handed me a hopeless jumble of papers"; "he is a hopeless romantic" | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- bleak (a.)
Without color; pale; pallid. - bleak (a.)
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. - bleak (a.)
Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. - bleak (a.)
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω
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bleak
A small fresh-water fish of the species Alburnus alburnus.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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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.] -
bleak
blēk, n. a small white river-fish
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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.
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🔤- bleak, noun, singular of bleaks.
- bleak, adjective.
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