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bleak1
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- pronunciation:
- blik
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Explorer
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
bleaker, bleakest |
| definition 1: |
cold, windswept, or barren.
The countryside there is bleak in winter.
- synonyms:
- desolate, dismal, dreary
- similar words:
- arctic, bare, barren, cold, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, meager, stark, tenebrous, windswept
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| definition 2: |
having a hopeless quality.
The widow's prospects were bleak.- synonyms:
- dismal, dreary, gloomy
- antonyms:
- promising, rosy
- similar words:
- desolate, forlorn, hopeless
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| related words: |
bald, cheerless, dark, dismal, raw, somber, waste |
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| derivations: |
bleakly (adv.), bleakness (n.) |
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