bleak
/bliːk/
adjective
- 1
Without color; pale; pallid.
- 2
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
“A bleak and bare rock.”
- 3
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
“A bleak future is in store for you.”
noun
- 1
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
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