Associations to the word «Bleak»
Noun
- Moor
- Landscape
- Expanse
- Prospect
- Dark
- Wind
- Snow
- Wilderness
- Mist
- Cold
- Countryside
- Waste
- Wild
- Pike
- Dickens
- Desert
- Atmosphere
- Roach
- Carp
- Stare
- Humor
- Mood
- Perch
- Plain
- Expression
- Horizon
- Grin
- Gray
- Rudd
- Blast
- Outlook
- Desolation
- Hut
- Tundra
- Sand
- Emptiness
- Chancery
- Garb
- Darkness
- Raw
- Howling
- Knoll
- Filing
- Prognosis
- Upland
- Despair
- Crag
- Eel
- Marrow
- Danube
- Bitter
- Headland
- Hillside
- Chill
Adjective
Adverb
Wiktionary
BLEAK, adjective. Without color; pale; pallid.
BLEAK, adjective. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
BLEAK, adjective. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
BLEAK, noun. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
Dictionary definition
BLEAK, adjective. 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".
BLEAK, adjective. 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".
BLEAK, adjective. Unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic".
Wise words
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