Bleak

What do we mean by bleak?

Gloomy and somber. adjective

Providing no encouragement; depressing. adjective

Cold and cutting; raw. adjective

Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren. adjective

Any of various small European freshwater fishes of the genus Alburnus, having silvery scales. noun

To make white or pale; bleach.

To become white or pale.

Pale; pallid; wan; of a sickly hue.

Exposed to cold and winds; desolate; bare of vegetation.

Cheerless; dreary.

Cold; chill; piercing; desolating.

An English name of a small cyprinoid fish, Alburnus lucidus. Other forms of the name are bleik, blick. Also called blay. noun

To blacken; darken.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. noun

Without color; pale; pallid. adjective

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. adjective

Cold and cutting; cheerless. adjective

Without color; pale; pallid. adjective

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. adjective

Without color; pale; pallid.

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

Words that are spelled similarly to bleak:
bleak, break, leak, beak, bleek, bleat, bleam, blear, blea, fleak, bleck, aleak, blak, blenk, bloak, blek, bleau.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word bleak:
midwinter, dystopian, desolate, depressing, dickens, outlook, carp, prospects, despair, expectations, prophecy, humour, noir, lonely, landscape, atmosphere, moments, tone, tale, humor, picture, harsh, lyrics, house, vision, serial, plantation, future, portrait, narrative, violent, themes, gothic, mystery, novel, adaptation, bbc.

Words that rhyme with bleak:
fleek, seek, unique, pique, sleek, peak, tweak, speak, oblique, sneak, meek, streak, freak, geek, peek, chic, critique, leak, weak, wreak, creek, technique, antique, boutique, reek, clique, cheek, eke, week, misspeak, squeak, greek, leek, beak, shriek, batik, physique, bespeak, mystique, creak, sheik, teak, streek, fenugreek, workweek, sikh, gleek, sheikh, cleek, newspeak, cacique, monique, doublespeak, chesapeake, fleak, screak, grosbeak, zeke, clinique, modern greek, midweek, skreak, mozambique, dominique, martinique, beek, phreak, zeek, speke, so to speak, respeak, winning streak, tariq, steek, take a leak, deak, kweek, wild leek, peake, sheikhdom, bubble and squeak, cardinal grosbeak, veronique, rieck, henrique, belgique, classical greek, weick, teac, mountain peak, ancient greek, speake, steik, calendar week, holy week, late greek, geac, leake, geekdom, feick.

Adjectives that are often used to describe bleak:
little, future, top, same, own, small, unrelievedly, certain, more, cold, best, less, live, present, pretty, whole, french, wild, blue, vast, wintry, unimaginably, steely, salted, raw, sharp, silvery, jolly, elevated, anti, astonishingly, deadly, damn, mad, radical, danubian, sound, cruel, bare, usual.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective bleak:
picture, future, landscape, day, hills, wind, winds, place, winter, world, prospects, prospect, country, view, days, outlook, situation, mountains, house, coast, morning, land, night, room, vision, look, shore, period, shores, air, smile, hill, region, light, existence, eyes, sky, reality, weather, desert, despair, december, island, spot, plateau, plains, plain, rock, moors, wilderness, moor, climate, surroundings, rocks, afternoon, scene, assessment, walls, face, mountain, environment, mood, atmosphere, hillside, aspect, waste, regions, uplands, months, north, appearance, town, expression, prognosis, countryside, expanse, wastes, scenario, desolation, road, heights, streets, moorland, islands, moment, stretch, conclusion, prairie, terrain, fields, season, building.

Consonant match to bleak:
black, block, bloc, bloke, blake, bloch, blick, blech, blok, bleck, blook, bleich.

Words that sound like bleak:
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