Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - bleak
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Bleak
bleak
~ adj 1 without anything to make you feel cheerful or hopeful (bleak news | a bleak outlook/prospect/future) (With no money and no job, my prospects seemed bleak.) 2 cold and without any pleasant or comfortable features (a bleak January afternoon | The landscape was bleak and bare.) - bleakly adv - bleakness n
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(bleaker, bleakest) 1. If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve. The immediate outlook remains bleak... Many predicted a bleak future. = gloomy ? bright ADJ • bleakness The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed. N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp, oft N of n 2. If you describe a place as bleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive. The island’s pretty bleak. ...bleak inner-city streets. ADJ 3. When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant. The weather can be quite bleak on the coast. ADJ 4. If someone looks or sounds bleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy. Alberg gave him a bleak stare. ADJ • bleakly ‘There is nothing left,’ she says bleakly. ADV: usu ADV with v, also ADV adj ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: Middle English bleke pale; probably akin to Old English blac Date: 1574 1. exposed and barren and often windswept 2. cold, raw a ~ November evening 3. a. lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness ; grim b. not hopeful or encouraging ; depressing a ~ outlook c. severely simple or austere Synonyms: see dismal • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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1. adj. 1 bare, exposed; windswept. 2 unpromising; dreary (bleak prospects). Derivatives bleakly adv. bleakness n. Etymology: 16th c.: rel. to obs. adjs. bleach, blake (f. ON bleikr) pale, ult. f. Gmc: cf. BLEACH 2. n. any of various species of small river-fish, esp. Alburnus alburnus. Etymology: ME prob. f. ON bleikja, OHG bleicha f. Gmc ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. не защизенный от ветра, открытый 2. холодный; суровый (о погоде) 3. лишенный растительности 4. унылый, мрачный bleak prospects —- печальные перспективы bleak smile —- печальная улыбка 5. зоол. уклейка (Alburnus) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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I adj. 1) открытый, незащищенный от ветра 2) холодный; суровый по климату 3) лишенный растительности 4) унылый; мрачный (о выражении лица) 5) бесцветный, бледный II noun уклейка (рыба) ...Англо-русский словарь
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- c.1300, from O.N. bleikr "pale" (see bleach). Sense of "cheerless" is c.1700 figurative extension. The same Gmc. root produced the O.E. blac "pale," but this died out, probably from confusion with blжc "black;" but bleikr persisted, with a sense of "bare" as well as "pale." ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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