Bleak
[bliːk] or [blik]
Definition
(adj.) unpleasantly cold and damp; 'bleak winds of the North Atlantic' .
Typist: Richard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Without color; pale; pallid.
(a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
(a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
(a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
Typist: Sadie
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Cold, chill, chilly, raw, biting, piercing.[2]. Unsheltered, exposed to cold, exposed to wind.
Typist: Willard
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Blank, bare, open, cold, exposed, stormy, nipping
ANT:Warm, sheltered, verdant, luxuriant, zephyrous, balmy, halcyonic
Edited by Lenore
Definition
adj. colourless: dull and cheerless: cold unsheltered.—adv. Bleak′ly.—n. Bleak′ness.
n. a small white river-fish.
Checker: Percy
Examples
- Bleak House; true. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- In the same odd way, yet with the same rapidity, he then produced singly, and rubbed out singly, the letters forming the words Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The Jarndyce in question, said the Lord Chancellor, still turning over leaves, is Jarndyce of Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And then I said Bleak House was thinning fast; and so it was, my dear. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- You know, you said to me, was this the mistress of Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Guardian, said I, you remember the happy night when first we came down to Bleak House? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And Bleak House, said his lordship, is in-- Hertfordshire, my lord. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- How bare and bleak seems the translation, bereft of its Hellenic sonorousness of speech! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- This is Bleak House. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- And in the meanwhile leave Bleak House? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- From tropic to the bleakest north, the cocks crow before the advancing margin of dawn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Peggy