Thesaurus: bleak

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1. a. Without color; pale; pallid.
2. a. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
3. a. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
4. a. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
5. adj. offering little or no hope
6. adj. providing no shelter or sustenance
7. adj. unpleasantly cold and damp
8. 1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe. 2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. Longfellow. 3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. -- Bleak"ish, a. -- Bleak"ly, adv. -- Bleak"ness, n. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.] Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. Baird.
9. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the familyCyprinidæ; the blay. [Written also blick.]
10. j:100 s. unpleasantly cold and damp