OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 13927

bleak

/bliːk/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
pálido • sin color
Without color; pale; pallid.
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
desolado • yermo
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
a bleak and bare rock
a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
amargado • sin alegría
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
A bleak future is in store for you.
Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
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