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bleak
adjective
1 bleak
Offering little or no hope:
— Prospects were bleak.
— Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult.
synonyms: black, dim.
2 bleak
Providing no shelter or sustenance:
— The bleak treeless regions of the high Andes.
synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark.
3 bleak
Unpleasantly cold and damp:
— Bleak winds of the North Atlantic.
synonyms: cutting, raw.
Roget 383:
cold,
cool;
chill,
chilly;
icy;
gelid,
frigid,
algid†;
fresh,
keen,
bleak,
raw,
inclement,
bitter,
biting,
niveous†,
cutting,
nipping,
piercing,
pinching;
clay-cold;
starved
etc.
(made cold)
385;
chilled to the bone,
shivering
etc.
v.;
aguish,
transi de froid [Fr.];
frostbitten,
frost-bound,
frost-nipped.
cold as a stone,
cold as marble,
cold as lead,
cold as iron,
cold as a frog,
cold as charity,
cold as Christmas;
cool as a cucumber,
cool as custard.
icy,
glacial,
frosty,
freezing,
pruinose†,
wintry,
brumal†,
hibernal†,
boreal,
arctic,
Siberian,
hyemal†;
hyperborean,
hyperboreal†;
icebound;
frozen out.
unwarmed†,
unthawed†;
lukewarm,
tepid;
isocheimal†,
isocheimenal†,
isocheimic†.
frozen,
numb,
frost-bitten.
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