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bleak

/bliːk/adjective1 syllable

Bleak means: providing no shelter or sustenance.

Synonyms for bleak26

adjective, as in providing no shelter or sustenance

bare, barren, desolate, stark, inhospitable

adjective, as in offering little or no hope

black, dim, hopeless

adjective, as in unpleasantly cold and damp

cutting, raw, cold

also used for bleak

pasty, sallow, ashen, ashen-faced, ashy, blake, blanched, bloodless, chalky, dismal, lugubrious, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose

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What does bleak mean?3

adjective

1

providing no shelter or sustenance“bare rocky hills”

2

offering little or no hope“the future looked black”

3

unpleasantly cold and damp“bleak winds of the North Atlantic”

Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What rhymes with bleak?33

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All 33 rhymes for bleak, grouped by syllable

Bleak in a sentence

  • Despite concerted effort by the government and private actors, the language's future is bleak.mailohilohi
  • In terms of job offers, things look bleak.sundown
  • Where do you go when days are bleak?DJ_Saidez
  • The sky was drab and the landscape bleak.sundown
  • The overall outlook for the economy is bleak.CM
  • The outlook is bleak if society doesn't change, but it still can, Watson said.Hybrid
  • To some people, Algeria's future is looking bleak.Amastan
  • Some experts provided a bleak assessment of Algeria's current situation.Amastan

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Forms of bleak

as a adjective

comparative
bleaker
superlative
bleakest