Synonyms for Bleak
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1. bleak

   Synonyms:
   blank, bare, open, cold, exposed, stormy, nipping

   Antonyms:
   warm, sheltered, verdant, luxuriant, zephyrous, balmy, halcyonic

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1. 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, bleak, black-market, opprobrious, obtuse, sinister

   Antonyms:
   hot, hopeful, hospitable

2. bare, 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"

   Synonyms:
   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, bleak, unembellished, sodding(a), scanty, stark, utter(a), stern

   Antonyms:
   hospitable, hopeful, hot

3. bleak, cutting, rawadjective

   unpleasantly cold and damp

   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

   Synonyms:
   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, bleak, stabbing, stark, in the buff

   Antonyms:
   hot, hopeful, hospitable

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. bleakadjective

   Synonyms:
   cold, chill, chilly, raw, biting, piercing

2. bleakadjective

   Synonyms:
   unsheltered, exposed to cold, exposed to wind

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1. bleakadjective

   Synonyms:
   windswept, cheerless, raw, penetrating, desolate, dreary

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1. List of paraphrases for "bleak":

   gloomy, grim, sombre, dark, dismal, somber, dim, sad, morose, murky, joyless, dusky, dire, depressing, sobering

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1. Jan Egeland:

   2021 was, as we documented here, a very bleak year and 2022( is looking) even worse.

2. Anthony Hawkins:

   This is the worst since 2008. The economy looks very bleak and there is a lot of negative sentiment.

3. Christina Rossetti, A Christmas Carol:

   In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone; Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.

4. Tom Milliken:

   The world is watching especially those destination countries whose demand drives the trade — Viet Nam and China. There is an urgent need to implement the full provisions of the measures agreed by CITES Parties and to close those cross-border markets in Viet Nam that service Chinese consumers, failure to do so means the future outlook for Africa’s rhinos remains very bleak.

5. Christina G. Rossetti:

   In the bleak midwinter Frosty wind made moan, Earth stood hard as iron, Water like a stone Snow had fallen, snow on snow, Snow on snow, In the bleak midwinter, Long ago.