bleak
bleak Lexical Profile
bleak Game Scores & Validity
• adjective
Offering little or no hope for improvement or success; grim and discouraging.
"Due to the ongoing recession, the economic outlook for the coming year remains bleak."
Cold, empty, and lacking pleasant or welcoming features; barren and exposed to the elements.
"The hikers crossed a bleak moorland swept by icy winter winds."
Cold, raw, and cheerless (of weather or the sky).
"We stayed indoors reading by the fire all through that bleak November afternoon."
• noun
A small, slender Eurasian freshwater fish of the carp family (Alburnus alburnus), noted for its bright silvery scales historically used in making artificial pearls.
"Shoals of silvery bleak darted near the surface of the slow-moving river."
• Rhymes for bleak
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old Norse 'bleikr' or Old English 'blāc', meaning 'pale, shining, or colorless', sharing the same Proto-Germanic root as 'bleach'. The sense evolved from describing pale, bare land to describing cold, windswept landscapes and gloomy situations.