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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
THESAURUS
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Adjective, Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Adjective bleak has 3 senses

bleak(s = adj.all) black, dim - offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"; "took a dim view of things"

Derived form noun bleakness₁

bleak(s = adj.all) bare, barren, desolate, stark - 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"

Derived form noun bleakness₁

bleak(s = adj.all) cutting, raw - unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

Derived form noun bleakness₁

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CIDE DICTIONARY

bleak, a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. blāc, bl, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. blīcan to shine; akin to OHG. blīchen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. fle`gein to burn, shine, Skr. bhrāj to shine, and E. flame. Bleach, Blink, Flame.].

Without color; pale; pallid. [1913 Webster]
"When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead." [1913 Webster]

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. [1913 Webster]
"Wastes too bleak to rear
The common growth of earth, the foodful ear." [1913 Webster]

"At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach." [1913 Webster]

Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. [1913 Webster]

bleak, n. [From Bleak, a., cf. Blay.].

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [1913 Webster]
" The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls." Baird. [1913 Webster]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

bleak, adj.
1 bare, exposed; windswept.
2 unpromising; dreary (bleak prospects).

Derivative

bleakly adv. bleakness n.

bleak, n. any of various species of small river-fish, esp. Alburnus alburnus.

Etymology

ME prob. f. ON bleikja, OHG bleicha f. Gmc

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THESAURUS

bleak
Siberian, affecting, afflictive, affording no hope, algid, apathetic, arctic, austere, bare, barren, below zero, biting, bitter, bitterly cold, black, blown, boreal, brisk, brumal, cheerless, chilly, cold, cold as charity, cold as death, cold as ice, cold as marble, comfortless, crisp, cutting, dark, deplorable, depressing, depressive, desolate, despairing, desperate, despondent, discomforting, disconsolate, disheartening, dismal, dismaying, distressful, distressing, dolorific, dolorogenic, dolorous, dour, drear, drearisome, dreary, exposed, forlorn, freezing, freezing cold, frigid, funebrial, funereal, gelid, glacial, gloomy, grave, gray, grievous, grim, hard, harsh, hibernal, hiemal, hopeless, hyperborean, ice-cold, ice-encrusted, icelike, icy, in despair, inclement, joyless, keen, lamentable, melancholy, mournful, moving, nipping, nippy, numbing, oppressive, painful, pathetic, penetrating, piercing, pinching, piteous, pitiable, poignant, raw, regrettable, rigorous, rueful, sad, saddening, saturnine, severe, sharp, sleety, slushy, snappy, solemn, somber, sombrous, sore, sorrowful, stone-cold, stringent, subzero, supercooled, touching, triste, uncomfortable, unhappy, unhopeful, weariful, wearisome, weary, windblown, windswept, winterbound, winterlike, wintery, wintry, without hope, woebegone, woeful, wretched

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Cold
N cold, coldness, frigidity, inclemency, fresco, winter, depth of winter, hard winter, Siberia, Nova Zembla, wind- chill factor, ice, snow, snowflake, snow crystal, snow drift, sleet, hail, hailstone, rime, frost, hoar frost, white frost, hard frost, sharp frost, barf, glaze, lolly, icicle, thick-ribbed ice, fall of snow, heavy fall, iceberg, icefloe, floe berg, glacier, nev_ee, serac, pruina, freezing mixture, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium, chilliness, chill, shivering, goose skin, horripilation, rigor, chattering of teeth, numbness, frostbite, cold, cool, chill, chilly, icy, gelid, frigid, algid, fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching, clay-cold, starved, chilled to the bone, shivering, aguish, transi de froid, frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped, cold as a stone, cold as marble, cold as lead, cold as iron, cold as a frog, cold as charity, cold as Christmas, cool as a cucumber, cool as custard, icy, glacial, frosty, freezing, pruinose, wintry, brumal, hibernal, boreal, arctic, Siberian, hyemal, hyperborean, hyperboreal, icebound, frozen out, unwarmed, unthawed, lukewarm, tepid, isocheimal, isocheimenal, isocheimic, frozen, numb, frost-bitten, coldly, bitterly, pierre fendre.