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Synonyms for bleak
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black, bleak, dimadjective
offering little or no hope
"the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
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blackened, cutting, fatal, subdued, bootleg, faint, disgraceful, slow, calamitous, dumb, dark, dense, bare, raw, black, fateful, wispy, smuggled, inglorious, desolate, dim, pitch-dark, pitch-black, grim, mordant, stark, dull, contraband, dimmed, shameful, disastrous, smutty, shadowy, barren, ignominious, vague, black-market, opprobrious, obtuse, sinisterAntonyms:
hot, hopeful, hospitablebare, barren, bleak, desolate, starkadjective
providing no shelter or sustenance
"bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"
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spare, bare(a), devoid, perfect(a), consummate(a), blunt, unornamented, austere, au naturel(p), bare, raw, marginal, arrant(a), black, severe, gross(a), staring(a), simple(a), stripped, desolate, destitute, mere(a), cutting, everlasting(a), double-dyed(a), crude(a), dim, complete(a), innocent, plain, nude, unsheathed, pure(a), unfinished, barren, stark(a), unadulterated, thoroughgoing(a), free, naked, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), sternAntonyms:
hospitable, hopeful, hotbleak, cutting, rawadjective
unpleasantly cold and damp
"bleak winds of the North Atlantic"
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cutting, sensitive, tender, bare-assed, new, sore, bare-ass, bare, raw, lancinating, stinging, black, unsanded, natural, peeled, stark naked, desolate, dim, piercing, in the altogether, naked as a jaybird, in the raw, crude, lancinate, knifelike, keen, edged, barren, raw(a), rude(a), naked, stabbing, stark, in the buffAntonyms:
hot, hopeful, hospitable
Dictionary of English Synonymes
bleakadjective
bleakadjective
Synonyms:
unsheltered, exposed to cold, exposed to wind
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Fresh attempts to expose Russian ‘red line’ deterrence as hollow – whether on the ground, in the air, or at sea – would push Moscow to defend what it cannot give up without losing its self-respect, this would almost inevitably lead to clashes and casualties, which would carry the risk of further escalation. Should this happen, Russia-NATO confrontation would deteriorate literally to the point of brinkmanship, a truly bleak scenario.
My doctor painted a fairly bleak picture of the disease, even going so far as to tell me I probably wouldn't walk again..., whatever happens, MS can't take it all. I will always have my heart and soul, my wit and wisdom. Wherever the chips may fall, if I fall with them I will make it a point to do so gracefully — and laughing.
While sometimes things look bleak and difficult, there’s opportunity in everything, and you have to find the opportunity, you have to work to do that with creative leadership, i am absolutely confident that if people approach this thoughtfully, studiously, soberly, with creativity, there is a way to find strength out of whatever we do ahead.
We share this moment not through touch but our eyes, yours brilliant, shining, willing, wanting to know feel the pain, understand, mine dead to the world, a bleak history of empty files
I know that Brad is an optimist and he wanted to write a film that said that every time we turn on the news as we do and see how bleak it is, that it doesn't have to end that way; there's a future out there if you get involved, and I like the idea of it, i loved the idea of the story ... I liked the ending, I like the way they talked about those subject matters.
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- كئيبArabic
- мрачен, безрадостен, уклей, безцветен, открит, блескач, блед, голBulgarian
- farblos, Laube, ungeschützt, ausgeblichen, Ukelei, trostlos, desolat, trübe, freudlos, kahl, karg, düster, bleich, ödeGerman
- σίρκο, άθλιος, άχρωμος, θλιβερός, έρημος, άχαρος, ψυχρόςGreek
- desolado, alegría, amargado, albur, yermo, color, pálidoSpanish
- kahvatu, plass, viidikas, kaameEstonian
- غم افزاPersian
- paljas, salakka, kolkko, kalpea, synkkä, karuFinnish
- abletteFrench
- lom, gruamachScottish Gaelic
- meaylManx
- sivárHungarian
- alburno, infelice, triste, pallido, incolore, desolato, misero, alborellaItalian
- უფერული, ფერმკრთალიGeorgian
- AalbesLuxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- vīķeLatvian
- desolaat, guur, bleek, bliek, kleurloos, vreugdeloosDutch
- dysterNorwegian
- uklejaPolish
- alburnete, desanimado, pálido, desolado, pálidaPortuguese
- бесцветный, безрадостный, уклейка, бледный, открытый, незащищённый, мрачный, голыйRussian
- uklijaSerbo-Croatian
- färglös, blek, dyster, löjaSwedish
- solgun, soluk, renksizTurkish
- تاریکUrdu
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