bleak

Plural: bleak, bleaks

Adjective Satellite

• offering little or no hope; ; ; - J.M.Synge
  • "prospects were bleak"
  • "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"
• providing no shelter or sustenance
  • "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
• unpleasantly cold and damp
  • "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

Adj

• Without color; pale; pallid.
• Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
• Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Noun

• A small, slender European freshwater fish.
• A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

Adjective

• Bare, desolate, and often cold; dreary or depressing.

Examples

• a bleak and bare rock
• A bleak future is in store for you.
• a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
• Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
• Finding ’BLEAK’ in his rack was a modest play, but it cleared space for better letters.
• His chances looked BLEAK after his opponent hit two consecutive bingos.
• The news is bleak.
• The survey paints a bleak picture.
• They escaped across the bleak landscape.
• We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.

Synonyms

bare, barren, black, cutting, desolate, dim, raw, stark, ablet, alburn, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, blay, bleak, bloodless, chalky, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, exsanguious, forlorn, gayless, ghastly, gloomsome, gloomy, gray, grey, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, livid, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, pale, pallid, pasty, sallow, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wan, washed out, whey-faced, white, wintry, woeful

Anagrams of bleak