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

Selected Mnemonic for bleak

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

(Tag: ) Bleak sounds like leak, when someone leak urine in his pants he fell cold and cheerless
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(Tag: ) when exitement leaks we get bleak, means cheerless or cold
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(Tag: ) When your secret LEAKs you feel BLEAK..
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(Tag: ) bleak sounds like weak.... a cold and cheeerless person
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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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(Tag: global) ~Bleak Black Freak> black people are regarded as unfavourable depressing and usually having cold and cheerless heart
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(Tag: global) BLACK(bleak)clouds are cause of cold and cheerless weather.
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(Tag: ) if the fortune BLINK at u, u get lucky and cheerful;on the other hand, if u r BLEAK, u r cheerless and feeling blue
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(Tag: ) The fuel started to leak from the rocket while the launch and hence the scientists remained cheerless,that is bleak
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(Tag: ) (B)bilious + leak
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(Tag: ) From german origin..(Bleach)..means with dull or weak skin..which is having less hope.. Or Bleak sounds like weak, & person who is so weak & abt to die is hopeless..
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