ALL meanings of bleak
bleak
B b - adjective bleak If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve. 3
- adjective bleak If you describe a place as bleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive. 3
- adjective bleak When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant. 3
- adjective bleak If someone looks or sounds bleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy. 3
- adjective bleak exposed and barren; desolate 3
- adjective bleak cold and raw 3
- adjective bleak offering little hope or excitement; dismal 3
- noun bleak any slender silvery European cyprinid fish of the genus Alburnus, esp A. lucidus, occurring in slow-flowing rivers 3
- adjective bleak exposed to wind and cold; unsheltered; treeless; bare 3
- adjective bleak cold and cutting; harsh 3
- adjective bleak not cheerful; gloomy; dreary 3
- adjective bleak not promising or hopeful 3
- adjective bleak pale; wan 3
- noun bleak any of a genus (Alburnus) of small, slender European carp with silvery scales, an extract of which is used in making artificial pearls 3
- adjective bleak empty, stark 1
- adjective bleak prospect: grim, joyless 1
- adjective bleak raw, cold 1
- noun bleak type of fish 1
- adjective bleak bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain. 1
- adjective bleak cold and piercing; raw: a bleak wind. 1
- adjective bleak without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary: a bleak future. 1
- noun bleak a European freshwater fish, Alburnus alburnus, having scales with a silvery pigment that is used in the production of artificial pearls. 1
- noun bleak A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae. 0
- adjective bleak Without color; pale; pallid. 0
- adjective bleak Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. 0
- adjective bleak Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. 0