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, 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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1. Chris Bloomer:

   The potential for new major pipeline development in Canada is bleak with the Senate's passing of Bill C-69. Canada is sending mixed messages that will send critical investment capital elsewhere.

2. Curtis Wilkie:

   I can't remember it being any gloomier for Democrats in the South than it is today, the party has been demonized by Republicans. It's very bleak. I just don't see anything good for them on the horizon.

3. Dan Fogelman:

   I think there's like 10 critics out there who want things to be withholding and bleak, but I think the average human being and the average human experience is wildly big and emotional and dramatic, i mean, I think we have parents and families and kids. We go to weddings, we go to funerals, we have births of children. We love.... The human experience is like, it is like a beautiful, sad, emotional experience.

4. Joe Stork:

   The humanitarian picture in Falluja is bleak and getting bleaker, greater international attention to the besieged towns and cities of the region is needed or the results for civilians could be calamitous.

5. George Clooney:

   I know that Brad is an optimist and he wanted to write a film that said that every time we turn on the news as we do and see how bleak it is, that it doesn't have to end that way; there's a future out there if you get involved, and I like the idea of it, i loved the idea of the story ... I liked the ending, I like the way they talked about those subject matters.