Word Meanings - BLEAK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. blican to shine; akin to OHG. blichen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. to burn, shine, 1. Without color; pale; pallid. When she came

Additional info about word: BLEAK

akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, OS. bl, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all from the root of AS. blican to shine; akin to OHG. blichen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. to burn, shine, 1. Without color; pale; pallid. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of BLEAK)

• Blank
• Bleak
• bare
• utter
• unmitigated
• broad
• Desolate
• Bereaved
• forlorn
• forsaken
• comfortless
• deserted
• uninhabited
• desert
• wild
• waste
• bleak
• lonely
• Raw
• Uncooked
• unprepared
• unfinished
• unripe
• crude
• unseasoned
• inexperienced
• fresh
• green
• unpractised
• untried
• bald
• exposed
• galled
• chill
• piercing

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of BLEAK)

• People
• colonize
• plant
• develop
• fertilize
• cultivate
• enrich
• enliven
• Recal
• suppress
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

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• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• DESERTER
  One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.
• WASTEL
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• COMFORTLESS
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• DESOLATE
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• BROADSWORD
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• WASTETHRIFT
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  One who exposes or discloses.
• PEOPLE
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• GALLSTONE
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• UNUTTERABLE
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  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• MUTTERER
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