bleak — cold, empty, and lacking warmth or comfort; offering little or no hope
Part of speech: ADJECTIVE
Definition: cold, empty, and lacking warmth or comfort; offering little or no hope
Pronunciation (IPA): /bliːk/
Example Sentences
- Without coffee, Monday mornings look particularly bleak.
- The company's financial prospects appear increasingly bleak.
- His dating life was so bleak, even his phone's battery lasted longer than his relationships.
bleak
ADJECTIVE[/bliːk/]
cold, empty, and lacking warmth or comfort; offering little or no hope
The abandoned factory town looked bleak under the gray winter sky.
After a bleak week, still nothing to seek!
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🎤Pronunciation
🌳Etymology
Origin
From Old Norse 'bleikr' meaning pale or white, related to the concept of brightness and barrenness. The word entered Middle English through Scandinavian languages and evolved to describe both pale coloring and emotionally empty or desolate conditions.
Breakdown
bleak (single morpheme, from Old Norse bleikr) - cannot be broken into smaller English morphemes as it is a root word borrowed directly from Norse
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📝Examples
“Without coffee, Monday mornings look particularly bleak.”
“The company's financial prospects appear increasingly bleak.”
“His dating life was so bleak, even his phone's battery lasted longer than his relationships.”
“The bleak moor was shrouded in mist and silence.”
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