Found 3 items, similar to Bleak.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: bleak
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: bleak
bleak
adj 1: offering little or no hope;
“the future looked black”;
“prospects were bleak”;
“Life in the Aran Islands has
always been bleak and difficult”- J.M.Synge;
“took a
dim view of things” [syn:
black,
dim]
2: 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” [syn:
bare,
barren,
desolate,
stark]
3: unpleasantly cold and damp;
“bleak winds of the North
Atlantic” [syn:
cutting,
raw]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Bleak
Bleak
\Bleak\ (bl[=e]k), a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS.
bl[=a]c, bl[=ae]c, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek,
Dan. bleg, OS. bl[=e]k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all
from the root of AS. bl[=i]can to shine; akin to OHG.
bl[=i]chen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. fle`gein to
burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to shine, and E. flame. [root]98.
Cf.
Bleach,
Blink,
Flame.]
1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
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When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as
one that were laid out dead. --Foxe.
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2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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Wastes too bleak to rear
The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
--Wordsworth.
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At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. --Longfellow.
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3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
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Bleak"ish, a. --
Bleak"ly, adv. --
Bleak"ness, n.
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Bleak
\Bleak\, n. [From
Bleak, a., cf.
Blay.] (Zo["o]l.)
A small European river fish (
Leuciscus alburnus), of the
family Cyprinid[ae]; the blay. [Written also
blick.]
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Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is
used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. --Baird.
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