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Bleak

//bliːk//

Synonyms for "bleak" (159 found)

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Informal (29)

Adj, adv, noun, verb, slang(3 words)

heavy dead sore

Adj, adv, name, noun, verb, slang(5 words)

hard sharp bare raw bitter

Adj, adv, noun, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, noun, verb, slang(7 words)

black keen cutting crisp grim gray grey

Name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, intj, name, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, name, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, slang(4 words)

wretched snappy painful frigid

Adj, noun, verb, slang(1 words)

Adj, noun, slang(4 words)

gloomy slushy nippy ice-cold

Adj, name, slang(1 words)

General use (130)

Adjective(8 words)

black cutting bare raw dim stark desolate barren

Adj, name, noun, verb(2 words)

Adj, name(2 words)

Adj, noun, verb(13 words)

piercing moving unhappy biting freezing forlorn pinching numbing sombre dismaying discouraging despairing saddening

Adj, noun(18 words)

dreary dismal barren melancholy deplorable chilly dour boreal depressant hyperborean dusky disconsolate siberian depressive drear ice cold freezing cold unhopeful

Adjective(61 words)

rigorous solemn apathetic lifeless poignant austere grievous oppressive untoward hopeless woeful lamentable murky sorrowful mournful pathetic woebegone inclement pitiable wearisome

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Adj, verb(12 words)

desolate brisk somber penetrating distressing exposed depressing blown affecting disheartening supercooled discomforting

Adj, name, verb(1 words)

Adj, name, noun(2 words)

Adj, adv, noun(1 words)

Adj, noun, prep, verb(1 words)

Noun, verb(1 words)

below zero bitterly cold cold as marble ice-encrusted winterbound without hope affording no hope in despair

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