bleak
1bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain.
cold and piercing; raw: a bleak wind.
without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary: a bleak future.
Origin of bleak
1synonym study For bleak
Other words from bleak
- bleakish, adjective
- bleakly, adverb
- bleakness, noun
Words Nearby bleak
Other definitions for bleak (2 of 2)
a European freshwater fish, Alburnus alburnus, having scales with a silvery pigment that is used in the production of artificial pearls.
Origin of bleak
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How to use bleak in a sentence
It was a bleak image of the future, with an urgent call to action — one that was more or less ignored by the federal government.
Is the Government Just Going to Watch the Restaurant Industry Die? | Elazar Sontag | August 28, 2020 | EaterThe sports retailer, like many of its peers, was hit hard by the pandemic amid shutdowns and store closures, and even announced it would suspend its dividend when things were looking especially bleak in March.
Dick’s Sporting Goods just posted an epic quarter—but these 3 factors may limit the stock’s upside | Anne Sraders | August 26, 2020 | FortuneBeing true bulls, I’m sure none of you dumped your shares in late March as things looked their bleakest.
Global stocks continue to climb after investors pushed the S&P 500 into a new bull market | Bernhard Warner | August 19, 2020 | FortuneRemarkably, this bleak picture is more optimistic than the economists’ predictions in previous surveys.
What Economists Fear Will Happen Without More Unemployment Aid | Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux | August 11, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightIn The End of Everything, theoretical astrophysicist Katie Mack provides a tour of the admittedly bleak possibilities.
‘The End of Everything’ explores the ways the universe could perish | Emily Conover | August 4, 2020 | Science News
Set among the vacant houses of suburban New Mexico, the film offers a bleak perspective on the possibility of growth and renewal.
Hitchcock saw the work of, and probably met, Murnau, the great German filmmaker--the earliest master of bleak light and shadow.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Fade to Black: The Great Director’s Final Days | David Freeman | December 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd surprisingly, gender may also play a role in your bleak winter outlook.
In the financing portion, the numbers are particularly bleak.
The Garfield specials are also unique for their deadpan delivery and oftentimes bleak worldview.
Garfield Television: The Cat Who Saved Primetime Cartoons | Rich Goldstein | November 5, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTFrom half a block behind the man, Kip watched the messenger walk along side of the bleak walls of Tombs prison.
Around us rose the broken, straggling walls, bare and bleak, without a shred of ivy or wall-flower to hide their grim nakedness.
British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car | Thomas D. MurphyBut there, the bleak look of what had once been full of peace and mother's love, struck cold on her heart.
Ruth | Elizabeth Cleghorn GaskellThen at last, when the sun was near its setting and men finally felt a bleak wind biting, the Pope spoke again.
God Wills It! | William Stearns DavisThe land around Gallipoli on the European side of the straits is more bleak and more level.
The British Expedition to the Crimea | William Howard Russell
British Dictionary definitions for bleak (1 of 2)
/ (bliːk) /
exposed and barren; desolate
cold and raw
offering little hope or excitement; dismal: a bleak future
Origin of bleak
1Derived forms of bleak
- bleakly, adverb
- bleakness, noun
British Dictionary definitions for bleak (2 of 2)
/ (bliːk) /
any slender silvery European cyprinid fish of the genus Alburnus, esp A. lucidus, occurring in slow-flowing rivers
Origin of bleak
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