Definition of Bleak

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Definition of Bleak
	Bleak Without color; pale; pallid. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay. Related Definitions: And, As, Blast, Blay, Bleak, By, Cheerless, Cold, Color, Cutting, Desolate, European, Exposed, Family, Fish, Of, Pale, Pallid, River, Small, Swept, The, Without

Bleak Quotations

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak, arid desert.
Kahlil Gibran

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Until I started doing standup, there were some very bleak days.
Larry David

I try to give people hope. Even though life is bleak, there's hope out there.
Danielle Steel

Life was very simple. My parents had come from the North of England, which is a fairly rugged, bleak, hard-working part of England, and so there was not the expectation of luxury.
Roger Bannister

Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.
Allen Klein

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.
Sean Lennon

He told me I didn't understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn't understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.
Mark E. Smith

It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
Walter Jon Williams

I think that I'm serious, but I don't think that I'm inordinately bleak.
Ann Beattie

Bleak Translations

bleak in Afrikaans is koud, donker, onaangenaam
bleak in Dutch is naar, akelig, onaangenaam
bleak in Italian is eremo
bleak in Norwegian is kald, sturen
bleak in Portuguese is frio
bleak in Swedish is kulen

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