What does bleak mean?
Bleak means Without color; pale; pallid..
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/bliːk/ · adjective
Without color; pale; pallid..
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
a bleak and bare rock
a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
They escaped across the bleak landscape.
We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach, / A fisherman stood aghast, / To see the form of a maiden fair, / Lashed close to a drifting mast.
Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
Use bleak when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bleak means Without color; pale; pallid..
Common synonyms include ablet, alburn, blay, pasty.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
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