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bleak - Dictionary definition and meaning for bleak

BLEAK

(adj.) offering little or no hope
"the future looked black", "prospects were bleak", "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult", "took a dim view of things"
synonyms : black , dim
(adj.) 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"
synonyms : bare , barren , desolate , stark
The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes provided him no shelter. -added by naila_inlas
(adj.) unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
synonyms : cutting , raw
He could not get accustomed to the bleak winds of the North Atlantic. -added by naila_inlas

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(Tag: Global) bleak sounds like black -- black color is the symbol of hopelessness and depression.
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Mnemonics for bleak

(Tag: ) when exitement leaks we get bleak, means cheerless or cold
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(Tag: ) Bleak sounds like leak, when u have cold your nose will be leaking as you will be cheerless.
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(Tag: english) bleak....rhymes like .. leak ...thae chances of leaking theexam paper are weak,no hope ..so.....bleak...:)
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