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bleak
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- pronunciation:
- blik
- features:
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| inflections: |
bleaker, bleakest |
| definition 1: |
bare, cold, or not protected from the weather.
The prairie is bleak in winter.- synonyms:
- desolate, dismal, dreary
- similar words:
- arctic, bare, barren, cold, gloomy, meager, windswept
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| definition 2: |
hopeless; without cheer.
The widow lived in a bleak apartment.- synonyms:
- dismal, dreary, gloomy
- antonyms:
- promising, rosy
- similar words:
- desolate, hopeless
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| related words: |
bald, dark, dismal, raw, somber |
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| derivations: |
bleakly (adv.), bleakness (n.) |
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