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

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

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, 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, 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, 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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How to use bleak in a sentence?

1. MG:

   You're the most uninvited ever, Yet you force and barge in. You come with such a despise, Which bring forth sadness and torments which we cannot suffice. You leave the scars that couldn't be healed And memories that cannot be faded. Yet you come!! I curse you that you wouldn't see the bleak light of happiness for all eternity!! And be haunted by darkest demons of fraternity.

2. Heidi Tagliavini:

   The outlook is still bleak.

3. Hussain Monguno:

   Are these girls going to be collateral damage? It is very, very sad, as the days go by, the possibility of getting them back becomes very bleak.

4. George Sarris:

   It took three years for the country to come close to turning around, after the January 25 elections it all went downhill. Now things are bleak. For me, there is no salvation here.

5. Alexander Russ:

   It's bleak to say the least for companies trying to get an exclusion.