bleak (Meaning)
bleak (s)
offering little or no hope
providing no shelter or sustenance
unpleasantly cold and damp
bleak (a.)
Without color; pale; pallid.
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
Synonyms & Antonyms of bleak
Synonyms:
- distressing
- dejected
- distressful
- woeful
- drab
- menacing
- discomfiting
- dismaying
- Cimmerian
- droopy
- melancholic
- mournful
- discouraging
- hopeless
- threatening
- colorless
- upsetting
- woebegone
- dour
- tenebrific
- dull
- negative
- mirthless
- plaintive
- despondent
- lamentable
- elegiacal
- hangdog
- sunless
- low
- down
- pessimistic
- disheartening
- dispiriting
- dim
- inconsolable
- plutonian
- sorrowful
Antonyms:
bleak Sentence Examples
- The landscape looked bleak under the overcast sky, with no sign of sunshine.
- After the storm passed, the village appeared bleak, with damaged buildings and fallen trees.
- His prospects for the future seemed bleak after losing his job.
- She painted a bleak picture of the economy, forecasting a prolonged recession.
- The prisoner stared out of the window at the bleak, barren yard of the prison.
- The novel depicted a bleak dystopian society, devoid of hope and freedom.
- The doctor's prognosis was bleak, giving the patient only a few months to live.
- As winter approached, the countryside became increasingly bleak, with bare trees and frozen fields.
- The news of the company's bankruptcy cast a bleak shadow over the employees' morale.
- Despite their best efforts, the search party faced a bleak outlook in finding the lost hikers in the vast wilderness.
FAQs About the word bleak
offering little or no hope, providing no shelter or sustenance, unpleasantly cold and dampWithout color; pale; pallid., Desolate and exposed; swept by cold wind
depressing, miserable, cold, darkening, lonely, murky, somber, desolate, lonesome, gray
merry, cordial, joyful, friendly, festive, friendly, sunshiny, gay, jolly, gay
The landscape looked bleak under the overcast sky, with no sign of sunshine.
After the storm passed, the village appeared bleak, with damaged buildings and fallen trees.
His prospects for the future seemed bleak after losing his job.
She painted a bleak picture of the economy, forecasting a prolonged recession.
