bleak

bleak meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

Examples of bleak in a sentence

• They escaped across the bleak landscape.
• We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
• The survey paints a bleak picture.
• Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches:
• At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, / A fisherman stood aghast, / To see the form of a maiden fair, / Lashed close to a drifting mast.1840 January 10, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “[Ballads.] w:The Wreck of the Hesperus.”, in Ballads and Other Poems, 2nd edition, Cambridge...
• But the bleakest Utopia of all, the very first of the Unutopias, had come from Wells long before that.1978, The Spectator, volume 240, number 1, page 25:

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Synonyms of bleak

• pasty
• sallow
• ashen
• ashen-faced
• ashy
• blake
• blanched
• bloodless
• chalky
• exsanguious

All synonyms of bleak

Forms of bleak

Origin of bleak

From Middle English bleke (also bleche, whence the English doublet bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English blǣc, blǣċ, blāc (“bleak, pale, pallid”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), all from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). Cognate with Dutch bleek (“pale, wan, pallid”), Low German blek (“pale”), German bleich (“pale, wan, sallow”), Danish bleg (“pale”), Swedish blek (“pale, pallid”), Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek (“pale”), Norwegian Nynorsk bleik (“pale”), Faroese bleikur (“pale”), Icelandic bleikur (“pale, pink”).

From Middle English bleke (“small river fish, bleak, blay”), perhaps an alteration (due to Old English blǣc (“bright”) or Old Norse bleikja) of Old English blǣġe (“bleak, blay, gudgeon”); or perhaps from a diminutive of Middle English *bleye (“blay”), equivalent to blay + -ock or blay + -kin. See blay.

Words formed from bleak

• Danube bleak
• sunbleak
• bleaken
• bleakish
• bleakly
• bleakness
• bleakonomics
• bleaksome
• unbleak

Words that rhyme with bleak

• weak
• beak
• dreich
• speak
• streak
• peak
• freak
• cheek
• greek
• oblique
• sneak
• antique

Questions about bleak

What does bleak mean?

Bleak means without color; pale; pallid.

What is bleak in Tamil?

Bleak in Tamil is ஊக்கமற்ற, மந்தமான, மழுங்கலான. See Bleak meaning in Tamil.

How do you use bleak in a sentence?

They escaped across the bleak landscape.

What part of speech is bleak?

Bleak can be an adjective or a noun.

How do you pronounce bleak?

Bleak is pronounced /bliːk/.