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bleak
What does bleak mean?
bleak (adjective): offering little or no hope.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use bleak in a sentence?
- Prospects were bleak. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce bleak?
/blik/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does bleak come from?
From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to bleak
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “bleak” mean?
huge, gigantic, very large
Not quite: that's what immense means.
silent; not making a sound
Not quite: that's what mute means.
offering little or no hope
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having a sharp inclination
Not quite: that's what steep means.
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