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English adjective: bleak | |||
| 1. | bleak offering little or no hope | ||
| Samples | The future looked black. Prospects were bleak. Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult. Took a dim view of things. | ||
| Synonyms | black, dim | ||
| Similar | hopeless | ||
| Antonyms | hopeful | ||
| 2. | bleak providing no shelter or sustenance | ||
| Samples | Bare rocky hills. Barren lands. The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes. The desolate surface of the moon. A stark landscape. | ||
| Synonyms | bare, barren, desolate, stark | ||
| Similar | inhospitable | ||
| Antonyms | hospitable | ||
| 3. | bleak unpleasantly cold and damp | ||
| Samples | Bleak winds of the North Atlantic. | ||
| Synonyms | cutting, raw | ||
| Similar | cold | ||
| Antonyms | hot | ||
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