The bleakness of day is sometimes worse than the dark.
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Bleakness
Synonyms for "bleakness" (40 found)
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Closest matches (8)
Strong matches (12)
Related words (20)
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Translations
7 translations across 5 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- ankeus noun (characteristic of being bleak)
Irish
1 entries- riteacht noun (characteristic of being bleak)
Romanian
2 entries- paliditate noun (characteristic of being bleak)
- paloare noun (characteristic of being bleak)
Russian
1 entries- бле́дность noun (characteristic of being bleak)
Spanish
2 entries- palidez noun (characteristic of being bleak)
- tristeza noun (characteristic of being bleak)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Alive as a cell can be, an easy death that it meets. Healthy a human can be, and with time death heeds. Society blooming with progress, will devolve with regression. A planet abundant in uniqueness, that can end with bleakness. Complex systems that existed, left traceless as black holes prevail. An interconnected sophisticated universe will end up confiscated and left darkened. I wonder, I can exist once and disappear, but will I ever exist again?
Source: tatoeba (12960801)
Snowsheds and snow fences protect the line on either side of Semskfjell, but the country soon begins to lose some of its bleakness, and the tree line is regained at Lønsdal (1,680 ft. above sea-level), where the line is high on a hillside, commanding widespread views of the mountains.
Source: wiktionary
And there are few better ways to enjoy the rugged bleakness of the fells than from a nice warm train, especially when the weather's constantly changing as the day slips away.
Source: wiktionary
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