Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Gloomy and somber.
- adjective Providing no encouragement; depressing.
- adjective Cold and cutting; raw.
- adjective Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren.
- noun Any of various small European freshwater fishes of the genus Alburnus, having silvery scales.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pale; pallid; wan; of a sickly hue.
- Exposed to cold and winds; desolate; bare of vegetation.
- Cheerless; dreary.
- Cold; chill; piercing; desolating.
- To make white or pale; bleach.
- To become white or pale.
- To blacken; darken.
- noun An English name of a small cyprinoid fish, Alburnus lucidus. Other forms of the name are bleik, blick. Also called
blay .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) A small European river fish (
Leuciscus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. - adjective obsolete Without color; pale; pallid.
- adjective Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
- adjective Cold and cutting; cheerless.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A small European river
fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the familyCyprinidae . - adjective Without
color ;pale ;pallid . - adjective
Desolate andexposed ;swept by coldwinds . - adjective
Unhappy ;cheerless ;miserable .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective offering little or no hope
- adjective unpleasantly cold and damp
- adjective providing no shelter or sustenance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The thought of Nick standing there in the stables, his expression bleak and angry, tall and dark yet so oddly comfortable and easy to be with, made the breath catch in her throat.
A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006
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The thought of Nick standing there in the stables, his expression bleak and angry, tall and dark yet so oddly comfortable and easy to be with, made the breath catch in her throat.
A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006
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The thought of Nick standing there in the stables, his expression bleak and angry, tall and dark yet so oddly comfortable and easy to be with, made the breath catch in her throat.
A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006
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Then again, Amanda is not a big fan of what she calls bleak medicalized definitions.
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That bad times pass, that keeping going when things look bleak is better than holing up, and that a disaster is not always the end of a project.
April Scientiae: We Rise Up Candid Engineer 2009
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I would later find out that those kind of "internal" Committee polls are skewed to help fundraising efforts in bleak election years.
Matthew Frankel: Today the Future Begins Matthew Frankel 2010
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Major themes are rebellion against authority and wanderings in bleak, post-apocalyptic landscapes.
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I would later find out that those kind of "internal" Committee polls are skewed to help fundraising efforts in bleak election years.
Matthew Frankel: Today the Future Begins Matthew Frankel 2010
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Warning comes in bleak 28-page response to the Department of Media, Culture and Sport from S4C over threatened cuts
S4C claims 40% budget cut would 'call into question' future of channel Mark Sweney 2010
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And once again, it seems to me we have this question utterly backwards; ask not why our genre tends to see the human future in bleak terms - ask instead why we suffer this constant cry within the genre to make room for cheap, plastic, rosy 'n' cosy models of human development appropriate to a Disney movie for five year olds.
MIND MELD: Why is Genre Fiction Bleak and What Can Be Done About It? 2009
vanishedone commented on the word bleak
WeirdNet has let me down: it doesn't know about the fish called a bleak at all.
January 22, 2009
chained_bear commented on the word bleak
I love the tags on this page. They could both be verbs, and hence commands.
January 22, 2009
vanishedone commented on the word bleak
Read backwards, they could also be the statement 'fish despair'.
January 22, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word bleak
It's a fish.
Guanine extracted from the scales is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls.
January 2, 2012
Azr commented on the word bleak
'Trostlos', 'Karg', 'Düster' TOP 5 BASIC
S: AUSTERE, Gloomy, Cold, Hopeless, Exposed, Pale
A: Bright, Cheerful, Happy, Warm, Sympathetic, Friendly
** --> Bleich de.
October 25, 2013