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black, bleak, dimadjective
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"
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blackened, cutting, fatal, subdued, bootleg, faint, disgraceful, slow, calamitous, dumb, dark, dense, bare, raw, black, fateful, wispy, smuggled, inglorious, desolate, dim, pitch-dark, pitch-black, grim, mordant, stark, dull, contraband, dimmed, shameful, disastrous, smutty, shadowy, barren, ignominious, vague, black-market, opprobrious, obtuse, sinisterAntonyms:
hot, hopeful, hospitablebare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective
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"
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spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, desolate, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, barren, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), sternAntonyms:
hospitable, hopeful, hotbleak, cutting, rawadjective
unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
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cutting, sensitive, tender, bare-assed, new, sore, bare-ass, bare, raw, lancinating, stinging, black, unsanded, natural, peeled, stark naked, desolate, dim, piercing, in the altogether, naked as a jaybird, in the raw, crude, lancinate, knifelike, keen, edged, barren, raw(a), rude(a), naked, stabbing, stark, in the buffAntonyms:
hot, hopeful, hospitable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
bleakadjective
bleakadjective
Synonyms:
unsheltered, exposed to cold, exposed to wind
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How to use bleak in a sentence?
The humanitarian picture in Falluja is bleak and getting bleaker, greater international attention to the besieged towns and cities of the region is needed or the results for civilians could be calamitous.
Near-term prospects for Japan's industrial sector appear very bleak.
I think there's like 10 critics out there who want things to be withholding and bleak, but I think the average human being and the average human experience is wildly big and emotional and dramatic, i mean, I think we have parents and families and kids. We go to weddings, we go to funerals, we have births of children. We love.... The human experience is like, it is like a beautiful, sad, emotional experience.
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You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity.
The world is watching especially those destination countries whose demand drives the trade — Viet Nam and China. There is an urgent need to implement the full provisions of the measures agreed by CITES Parties and to close those cross-border markets in Viet Nam that service Chinese consumers, failure to do so means the future outlook for Africa’s rhinos remains very bleak.
Translations for bleak
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- كئيبArabic
- мрачен, безрадостен, уклей, безцветен, открит, блескач, блед, голBulgarian
- farblos, Laube, ungeschützt, ausgeblichen, Ukelei, trostlos, desolat, trübe, freudlos, kahl, karg, düster, bleich, ödeGerman
- σίρκο, άθλιος, άχρωμος, θλιβερός, έρημος, άχαρος, ψυχρόςGreek
- desolado, alegría, amargado, albur, yermo, color, pálidoSpanish
- kahvatu, plass, viidikas, kaameEstonian
- غم افزاPersian
- paljas, salakka, kolkko, kalpea, synkkä, karuFinnish
- abletteFrench
- lom, gruamachScottish Gaelic
- meaylManx
- sivárHungarian
- alburno, infelice, triste, pallido, incolore, desolato, misero, alborellaItalian
- უფერული, ფერმკრთალიGeorgian
- AalbesLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- vīķeLatvian
- desolaat, guur, bleek, bliek, kleurloos, vreugdeloosDutch
- dysterNorwegian
- uklejaPolish
- alburnete, desanimado, pálido, desolado, pálidaPortuguese
- бесцветный, безрадостный, уклейка, бледный, открытый, незащищённый, мрачный, голыйRussian
- uklijaSerbo-Croatian
- färglös, blek, dyster, löjaSwedish
- solgun, soluk, renksizTurkish
- تاریکUrdu
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