bleak
21bleak — I. /blik / (say bleek) adjective 1. bare, desolate, and windswept: a bleak plain. 2. cold and piercing: a bleak wind. 3. dreary: a bleak prospect. {Middle English bleke pale, blend of bleche (Old English blæc) white, pale, from bleach, and blake… …
22bleak — adjective 1) a bleak landscape Syn: bare, exposed, desolate, stark, desert, lunar, open, empty, windswept; treeless, without vegetation, denuded Ant: lush 2) …
23bleak — adjective Etymology: Middle English bleke pale; probably akin to Old English blāc Date: 1574 1. exposed and barren and often windswept 2. cold, raw < a bleak November evening > …
24bleak — [16] Bleak originally meant ‘pale’, and comes ultimately from an Indo European base *bhleg , possible source of black and a variant of *phleg , which produced Greek phlégein ‘burn’ and Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (whence English conflagration and… …
25bleak — adjective 1) a bleak landscape Syn: bare, exposed, desolate, stark, desert, lunar, open, empty, windswept 2) the future is bleak Syn: unpromising, unfavourable …
26bleak — [bliːk] adj 1) with no reason to feel happy or hopeful Textile workers face a bleak future.[/ex] 2) cold and unpleasant bleak winter days[/ex] bleakly adv …
27bleak — [16] Bleak originally meant ‘pale’, and comes ultimately from an Indo European base *bhleg , possible source of black and a variant of *phleg , which produced Greek phlégein ‘burn’ and Latin flagrāre ‘burn’ (whence English conflagration and… …
28bleak — 1. adjective /bliːk/ a) Without color; pale; pallid. Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce. b) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. 2. noun /bliːk/ A small European river …
29bleak — bleak1 adjective 1》 bare and exposed to the elements: a bleak moor. ↘charmless and inhospitable; dreary. ↘(of the weather) cold and miserable. 2》 (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging. Derivatives bleakly adverb bleakness noun… …
30bleak — paprastoji aukšlė statusas T sritis zoologija | vardynas taksono rangas rūšis atitikmenys: lot. Alburnus alburnus angl. bleak rus. обыкновенная уклейка ryšiai: platesnis terminas – paprastosios aukšlės …
