Word "BLEAK" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
providing no shelter or sustenance
Synonyms:
bare, barren, desolate, stark
Examples:
the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
offering little or no hope
Synonyms:
black, dim
Examples:
prospects were bleak
Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult

Part of Speech:
Adjective
Definition:
unpleasantly cold and damp
Synonyms:
cutting, raw
Examples:
bleak winds of the North Atlantic

Crossword Clues for BLEAK

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Dickens's "__ House"
Exposed and barren (5)
Grim New York Times 03 Mar 2024
Novel house but starting to let rain in
Barren Mirror Quick 26 Feb 2024
Grim as Dickens's house? Mirror Cryptic 26 Feb 2024
Marble cake without cream turned out bitter
Gloomy Newsday 16 Jan 2024
For fish, make the bill out for cash!
Forbidding as Dickens’s house Mirror Cryptic 01 Jan 2024
Forbidding as Dickens's house
Dull black ooze (5)
Barren Mirror Quick 01 Jan 2024
Cheerless half of Dickens' work (5)
'-- House', 1853 novel by Charles Dickens (5)
Dismal The Guardian Quick 10 Nov 2023
Discouraging Newsday 22 Oct 2023
Dreary Eugene Sheffer 13 Oct 2023
Dreary Eugene Sheffer 23 Aug 2023
Not optimistic LA Times Daily 13 Aug 2023
Gloomy LA Times Daily 03 Aug 2023
Dreary Eugene Sheffer 15 Jun 2023
Grimly unpromising The Times Concise 05 Jun 2023
In trouble, a king's miserable The Guardian Cryptic 01 Mar 2023
Not looking good USA Today 20 Nov 2022
Dreary Universal 06 Aug 2022
50 in bill for fish
Gloomy judge incarcerates Liberal
Very gloomy-looking judge hoovering up line
Bare, exposed The Times Concise 17 Feb 2022
Desolate, when left with bill outside The Times Cryptic 10 Feb 2022
Cold and miserable New York Times 21 Jan 2022
Cold; cheerless The Guardian Speedy 15 Aug 2021
Depressing The Washington Post 12 Jun 2021
Depressing LA Times Daily 12 Jun 2021
Stark The Washington Post 06 Jun 2021
Stark LA Times Daily 06 Jun 2021
Gloomy Universal 07 May 2021
Cold and windswept lake Bill crosses
Grim Universal 28 Feb 2021
Dickens's '___ House' New York Times 07 Dec 2020
*Dismal The Washington Post 15 Sep 2020
*Dismal LA Times Daily 15 Sep 2020
Desolate The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2020
Dismal British disclosure The Sun Two Speed 16 Jul 2020
Cold and dreary Universal 02 Mar 2020
Severe judge imprisons learner …
Grim black hole
Lima taken in by Bill Stark Irish Times Crosaire 14 Dec 2019
Cold fish
Desolate The Telegraph Quick 14 Sep 2019
Unpromising Wall Street Journal 12 Sep 2019
Hardly hospitable Wall Street Journal 07 May 2019
Far from encouraging USA Today 10 Feb 2019
Unpleasantly cold The Telegraph Quick 05 Jan 2019
Hardly hospitable
Far from encouraging
Unpromising
Dismal swimmer in river
Dreary Newsday 10 Oct 2018
Despairing poet moving end of verse to earlier position
Cheerless
"The future looks ___." (Not promising)
Desolate Thomas Joseph 20 Feb 2018
Cheerless The Sun Two Speed 10 Dec 2017
Dismal bishop gets disclosure The Sun Two Speed 10 Dec 2017
Far from rosy Newsday 03 Nov 2017
Swimmer looking miserable
Cold fish
Cold and raw fish
Dim or grim New York Times 15 Apr 2017
Grim judge impounds laptop
Dim or grim
Grim
Dickens's "___ House"
Gloomy The Telegraph Quick 11 Dec 2016
Not at all promising USA Today 29 May 2016
Not at all promising
Not promising LA Times Daily 16 Dec 2015
Cheerless Universal 26 Nov 2015
What the dickens! House is so isolated? Irish Times Crosaire 17 Nov 2015
Desolate and dreary Wall Street Journal 02 Nov 2015
Grim Eugene Sheffer 31 Oct 2015
Cheerless USA Today 22 Sep 2015
Raw fish
Dismal Newsday 16 Apr 2015
Rather hopeless Newsday 29 Jan 2015
Cheerless
Rather hopeless
Desolate and dreary
Not promising
Dismal
Cheerless
Far from optimistic
Not very promising
Like film noir
Discouraging
Cheerless
Far from promising
Far from promising
Dreary
Like some prospects
Discouraging
Just about hopeless
Just about hopeless
Hopeless
Dickens' "___ House"
Like a wasteland
Dickens's "___ House"
Like a wasteland
Grim
Unpromising
Hopeless
Just about hopeless
Not promising
Not promising
Like the tundra
Dreary
Cheerless
Desolate, when left with bill outside
Discouraging
Opposite of rosy
Hardly promising
Like some prospects
Far from comforting
Grim
Not rosy
"___ House": Dickens
Dispiriting
__ House (Dickens)
Stark; barren; dreary
Desolate.
Cheerless.
Lacking kindliness.
Swept by cold winds.
Dickens "House."
Desolate and windswept.
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