
1) Austere 2) Bare 3) Barren 4) Black 5) Characterless 6) Cheerless 7) Cold and piercing 8) Cold fish 9) Cold, raw fish 10) Depressing 11) Desolate 12) Desolate and dreary 13) Dim or grim 14) Discouraging 15) Dismal 16) Dispiriting 17) Dour 18) Drear 19) Dreary 20) Far from comforting 21) Far from encouraging
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1) Bad 2) Barren 3) Chilly 4) Cold 5) Dark 6) Deserted 7) Desolate 8) Dismal 9) Dreary 10) Grim 11) Hopeless 12) Inhospitable 13) Miserable 14) Raw 15) Stark 16) Wintry
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• (a.) Without color; pale; pallid. • (a.) Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. • (a.) A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay. • (a.) Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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(Alburnus alburnus), small, slender fish of the carp family, Cyprinidae, found in rivers and lakes of England and Europe. A silvery-green fish, it ...
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Bleak adjective [ Middle English
blac ,
bleyke ,
bleche , Anglo-Saxon
blāc ,
bl...c , pale, wan; akin to Icelandic
bleikr , Swedish
blek , Danish
bleg , Old Saxon
bl...k , Dutch
bleek , Old High German
pleih , G. ...
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Bleak noun [ From
Bleak ,
adjective , confer
Blay .]
(Zoology) A small European river fish (
Leuciscus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay. [ Written also
blick .] » The silvery pigment lining the scales of the
bleak i...
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The bleak (Alburnus lucidus) is a small river fish, six or seven inches long. It is a member of the Carp family and resembles the dace. It is found in England and Europe. It is generally silver but with a green back and is very edible.
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[
adj] - unpleasantly cold and damp
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cutting adjective unpleasantly cold and damp; `bleak winds of the North Atlantic`
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Freshwater fish
Alburnus alburnus of the carp family. It is up to to 20 cm/8 in long, and lives in still or slow-running clear water in Britain and Europe. In Eastern Europe its scales are used in the preparation of artificial pearls
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bare, desolate, and often windswept: a bleak plain. · cold and piercing; raw: a bleak wind. · without hope or encouragement; depressing; dreary: a bleak future.
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offering little or no hope
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[SAT terms] offering little or no hope
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