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 Definitions for bleak: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bleak \Bleak\ (bl[=e]k), a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS.
bl[=a]c, bl[=ae]c, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek,
Dan. bleg, OS. bl[=e]k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all
from the root of AS. bl[imac]can to shine; akin to OHG.
bl[imac]chen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. fle`gein
to burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to shine, and E. flame.
[root]98. Cf. Bleach, Blink, Flame.]
1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
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When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as
one that were laid out dead. --Foxe.
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2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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Wastes too bleak to rear
The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
--Wordsworth.
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At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. --Longfellow.
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3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
[1913 Webster] -- {Bleak"ish}, a. -- {Bleak"ly}, adv. --
{Bleak"ness}, n.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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Bleak \Bleak\, n. [From Bleak, a., cf. Blay.] (Zool.)
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the
family Cyprinid[ae]; the blay. [Written also blick.]
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Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is
used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. --Baird.
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WordNet (r) 2.0
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bleak
adj 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" [syn: black, dim]
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" [syn: bare, barren, desolate, stark]
3: unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North
Atlantic" [syn: cutting, raw]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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134 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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