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bleak
adjective
offering little or no hope
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Word Facts
- Word length
- 5
- Starts with
- B
- Ends with
- K
- Contains
- LEA
- Scrabble score
- 11
- Database source
- OEWN 2025 Core
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Meaning
Definitions
adjective
offering little or no hope
“the future looked black”
adjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
“bare rocky hills”
adjective
unpleasantly cold and damp
“bleak winds of the North Atlantic”
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Example Sentences
the future looked black
prospects were bleak
{'source': 'J.M.Synge', 'text': 'Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult'}
took a dim view of things
bare rocky hills
barren lands
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes
the desolate surface of the moon
a stark landscape
bleak winds of the North Atlantic
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