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bleakest

bleakest is the superlative 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 bleakest

What is bleakest the superlative form of?
Bleakest is the superlative form of bleak.

Words near bleakest in the dictionary

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

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