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bleak

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Synonyms: break, blear, bleat, leak, beak, bleck, blead, blenk, fleak, bleau, pleak

Antonyms: break, blear, bleat, leak, beak, bleck, blead, blenk, fleak, bleau, pleak

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Adjective

  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
    • a bleak and bare rock
    • a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
    • They escaped across the bleak landscape.
    • We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
  3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
    • Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
    • A bleak future is in store for you.
    • The news is bleak.
    • The survey paints a bleak picture.

Noun

  1. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

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