Synonyms for bleak
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1. black, bleak, dim(adj)

   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, stark(adj)

   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, raw(adj)

   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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms(2.67 / 3 votes)Rate these synonyms:

1. bleak

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

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

Dictionary of English Synonymes(5.00 / 1 vote)Rate these synonyms:

1. bleak(a.)

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

2. bleak(a.)

   Synonyms:
   unsheltered, exposed to cold, exposed to wind

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1. bleak(a)

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

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1. List of paraphrases:

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

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1. Colin Cieszynski:

   It's pretty bleak. This is a once-in-a-generation selloff in the crude oil price, i don't think we've seen all of the adjustments work their way through, whether it's changes to capital spending, dividends and costs to reflect the new reality.

2. James Baker:

   I accepted Prime Minister of Israel at Prime Minister of Israel word, but you have to ask yourself what are the chances now of a two state solution. They're very bleak in my view.

3. Erik Pevernagie:

   The past becomes our second personality. It is our intrinsic safety code, irrespective of a potential love-hate relationship. It may become our guardian angel and protect us from a bleak blind alley, since it knows that “we” know and we know the colors of its cards. Experience is a tough master and knows the tricks of the trade. It teaches us how to play. ( " Not without the past" )

4. State John Kerry:

   While sometimes things look bleak and difficult, there’s opportunity in everything, and you have to find the opportunity, you have to work to do that with creative leadership, i am absolutely confident that if people approach this thoughtfully, studiously, soberly, with creativity, there is a way to find strength out of whatever we do ahead.

5. 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.

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