Bleak Common

Bleak has 5 different meanings across 1 category:

Definitions

Noun

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

"The local angler caught a bleak while fishing in the cold, clear waters of the trout stream."

Adjective

offering little or no hope

"the future looked black"

"prospects were bleak"

"Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"

"took a dim view of things"

black bleak dim

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"

bare barren bleak desolate stark

unpleasantly cold and damp

"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

bleak cutting raw

Without color; pale; pallid.

"The old man's face looked bleak and gray after spending too many hours staring at the snowy landscape."

Example Sentences

"the future looked black" adjective

"prospects were bleak" adjective

"Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult" adjective

"took a dim view of things" adjective

"bare rocky hills" adjective

"barren lands" adjective

"the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes" adjective

"the desolate surface of the moon" adjective

"a stark landscape" adjective

"bleak winds of the North Atlantic" adjective