Definitions for: Bleak


[adj] 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"
[adj] 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"
[adj] unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"



Webster (1913) Definition: Bleak, a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS. bl[=a]c, bl?c,
pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS.
bl?k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of
AS. bl[=i]can to shine; akin to OHG. bl[=i]chen to shine; cf.
L. flagrare to burn, Gr. ? to burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to
shine, and E. flame. ?98. Cf. Bleach, Blink, Flame.]
1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]

When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as
one that were laid out dead. --Foxe.

2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth,
the foodful ear. --Wordsworth.

At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. --Longfellow.

3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. --
Bleak"ish, a. -- Bleak"ly, adv. -- Bleak"ness, n.


Bleak, n. [From Bleak, a., cf. Blay.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the
family Cyprinid[ae]; the blay. [Written also blick.]

Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is
used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. --Baird.

Synonyms: bare, barren, black, cold, cutting, desolate, dim, hopeless, inhospitable, raw, stark

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