bleak in English

adjective

1

(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements.

a bleak and barren moor

synonyms: bare, exposed, desolate, stark, desert, lunar, open, empty, windswept, treeless, without vegetation, denuded

noun

1

a small silvery shoaling fish of the minnow family, found in Eurasian rivers.

The flies for pike were naturally bigger than the bleaks , so they left me alone and I got some pike.

adjective

bare, exposed, desolate, stark, desert, lunar, open, empty, windswept, treeless, without vegetation, denuded
unpromising, unfavorable, unpropitious, inauspicious, discouraging, disheartening, depressing, dreary, dismal, dim, gloomy, black, dark, grim, hopeless, somber
cold, bitter, biting, raw, freezing, icy
black, dim
cutting, raw
barren, bare, stark, desolate

Use "bleak" in a sentence

1. 28 The future looks bleak.

2. The immediate outlook remains bleak.

3. It's a bleak, quiet world.

4. This is a bleak valley.

5. Alberg gave him a bleak stare.

6. 24 I glimpsed a bleak future.

7. 2 The medical prognosis was bleak.

8. 23 The economic outlook is bleak.

9. 13 The immediate outlook remains bleak.

10. "Italian Bleak Alburnus albidus (Costa, 1838)".

11. 7 This is a bleak valley.

12. Is this countrified bleak fundamentalism a spoof?

13. 14 Alberg gave him a bleak stare.

14. • The future looked bleak and Barren

15. The future looked bleak and barren.

16. The outlook for jobs is bleak.

17. Prospects for the industry are extremely bleak.

18. The outlook for the economy is bleak.

19. 20 The landscape was bleak and bare.

20. 11 The outlook for jobs is bleak.

21. They had leprosy, and the future looked bleak.

22. 9 Prospects for the industry are extremely bleak.

23. They showed me into a bleak waiting room.

24. The economic situation for his family was bleak.

25. It was a rather bleak and dismal place.

26. It looks pretty bleak for avocado growers here.

27. 12 The company's prospects look pretty bleak.

28. 25 The bleak ground pullulated with jackrabbits.

29. 8 They faced a financially bleak Christmas.

30. The prospects for a modern social democracy look bleak.

31. 4 The future looks bleak for the fishing industry.

32. The kitchen was dank and Cheerless.a bleak, Cheerless day.

33. To the outward eye he was austere, even bleak.

34. The future looks bleak for the fishing industry.

35. The house stands on a bleak, windswept moor.

36. 21 The outlook for the economy is bleak.

37. 18 The hills look very bleak in wintertime.

38. 5 The outlook for the economy is bleak.

39. Several Ablet or bleak fish, bream fish on fishing net

40. 16 They live in very comfortable/pleasant/drab/bleak surroundings.

41. 22 The outlook for sufferers from this disease is bleak.

42. 3 The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.

43. Cheerless definition is - lacking qualities that cheer : bleak, joyless

44. They live in very comfortable/pleasant/drab/bleak surroundings.

45. 6 The house stands on a bleak, windswept moor.

46. 1 They showed me into a bleak waiting room.

47. Sometimes my self-pity billowed into bleak, inconsolable despair.

48. The moors looked bleak and desolate in the rain.

49. The house stood in a bleak and desolate landscape.

50. The bleak outlook stems from a confluence of factors.