Bleaker

Synonyms for "bleaker" (234 found)

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Closest matches (47)

cutting desolate hopeless affecting afflictive affording no hope alburn algid apathetic arctic austere bare barren below zero biting bitter bitterly cold black blay blown

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boreal brisk brumal cheerless chilly cold cold as charity cold as death cold as ice cold as marble comfortless

Noun(3 words)

ablet alburn blay

Adjective(10 words)

acherontic ashen ashen-faced ashy blake blanched bloodless brick chalky cheerless

Adjective(3 words)

bare barren black

Strong matches (70)

Adjective(26 words)

comfortless dark demotivating depressing desolate dire disconsolate discouraging dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreary dreich exsanguious forbidding forlorn frosty gayless

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ghastly gloomsome gloomy glum gray grey

crisp dark dead deplorable depressant depressing depressive despairing desperate despondent discomforting disconsolate discouraging disheartening dismal dismaying distressful distressing dolorific dolorogenic

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dolorous dour drab drear drearisome dreary dusky exposed fish forlorn freezing freezing cold frigid funebrial funereal gaunt gelid glacial gloomy grave gray

Adjective(3 words)

cutting desolate dim

Related words (117)

grievous grim hard harsh heavy hibernal hiemal hyperborean ice cold ice-cold ice-encrusted icelike icy in despair inclement joyless keen lamentable lifeless melancholy

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Adjective(37 words)

grim humorless jokeless joyless lack-laughter livid lugubrious melancholy mirthless miserable moody no joke pale pallid pasty plaintive sallow saturnine solemn solitary

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somber sombre spiritless stern sullen sunless uncheerful uncheery unhappy unmerry unmirthful wan washed out whey-faced white wintry woeful

Adjective(2 words)

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The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders.

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