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bleaker

bleaker is the comparative form of bleak.

Meaning of bleak

Adjective

bleak (comparative bleaker, superlative bleakest)

  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
    • When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.1563 March 30 (Gregorian calendar), John Foxe, Actes and Monuments of These Latter and Perillous Dayes, […], London: […] Iohn Day, […], →OCLC
  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
    • a bleak and bare rock
  3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
    • Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.

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Questions about bleaker

What is bleaker the comparative form of?
Bleaker is the comparative form of bleak.

Words near bleaker in the dictionary

  1. bleak
  2. bleaken
  3. bleakened
  4. bleakening
  5. bleakens
  6. bleaker
  7. bleakest
  8. bleakish
  9. Bleakley
  10. Bleakleys
  11. bleakly

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