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单词 bleak
释义
bleak
adjective
uk
/bliːk/us
/bliːk/
C2
If aplaceis bleak, it isempty, and notwelcomingorattractive:
（地方）荒凉的；凄凉的
Thehousestandson a bleak,windswepthilltop.这座房子坐落在一个饱受风雨侵袭的荒山顶上。
Synonyms
austere
comfortlessformal
inhospitable(PLACE)
severe(VERY SERIOUS)
spartan
Bleakweatheriscoldandunpleasant.
（天气）阴冷的
C2
If asituationis bleak, there is little or nohopefor thefuture:
（境况）惨淡的，无希望的
Theeconomicoutlookis bleak.经济前景暗淡。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not attractive to look at
  • back end
  • be no oil paintingidiom
  • be not much to look atidiom
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • excrescence
  • gopping
  • gracelessly
  • hatchet-faced
  • have a face like the back end of a busidiom
  • hideous
  • hideousness
  • plug-ugly
  • pretty
  • pretty-pretty
  • reptilian
  • scrappily
  • unsightly
  • vulgarity
  • vulgarly
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Describing bad weather
Not hopeful

Related word

bleakness
(Definition ofbleakfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

bleak| American Dictionary

bleak
adjective[-er/-est only]
us
/blik/
(esp. of aplaceor theweather)coldand notwelcoming:
It was a bleak,unpleasantdayinDecember.
Bleak alsomeanswithouthope:
With nojob, thefuturelookedbleak.
(Definition ofbleakfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

bleak| Business English

bleak
adjective
uk
/bliːk/us
not giving muchhopefor thefuture:
Theirlong-termprospectsappearbleak.
In ableakassessmentof the comingmonths, they saidmarketconditionswerealmostcertaintoremainchallenging.
(Definition ofbleakfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbleak

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Even in the bleakest of times she not only keeps herself going but encourages others around her never to give up hope.
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Most journalists and military historians, however, paint a bleaker picture.
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The ' deprived ' dimension paints ableakassessment, and includes deprivation, graffiti, lack of safety and unfriendly [people].
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Rather than the stereotypical merry sidekick, this interpretation gave us a much bleaker, more passionate character.
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To thisbleakpicture there were exceptions, however.
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The situation became even bleaker after the war.
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The hallways are clean, without graffiti, and violence-free, contrasting with thebleakand violence-ridden surrounding urban environment.
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More pertinently, the prospects for a public education strategy which would bring subjective and objective risk into step seem prettybleak.
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There are brilliant individual scholars sprinkled over the country, but the overall picture isbleak.
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Even in the 1930s, housing conditions werebleakbut with the growth of population they deteriorated further.
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Many of the respondents noted a need for outside stimulation to take the men's minds off their bodies and potentiallybleakprospects.
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The novel fleshes out the world that these characters exist in, at times presenting a future even bleaker than the one depicted in the film.
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Very poor people, after all, are widely held to conductbleakbut essentially uncomplicated lives.
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They're verybleakand very personal pictures of a corrupt world in which he felt he was living.
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The prospects for developing countries initiating control programmes de novo arebleak.
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