Bleak
WordNet

adjective


(1)   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"
(2)   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"
(3)   Unpleasantly cold and damp
"Bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
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Etymology 1


From . Cognates include Danish and German , unattested Gothic *blaiks; or from blāc

Adjective



  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
  3. Cold; cheerless.
    Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.

Noun


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