bleak

bleak is a 5-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Without color; pale; pallid. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 13 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Without color; pale; pallid.
2. adjective. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
3. adjective. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
4. adjective. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
5. adjective. offering little or no hope- J.M.Synge

   "the future looked black"

   "prospects were bleak"

   Synonyms: black, dim

6. adjective. providing no shelter or sustenance

   "bare rocky hills"

   "barren lands"

   Synonyms: bare, barren, desolate, stark

7. adjective. unpleasantly cold and damp

   "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"

   Synonyms: cutting, raw

Synonyms

black, dim, bare, barren, desolate, stark, cutting, raw

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in bleak:

blake, kabel

Common word forms

bleaks, bleaker, bleakly, bleakest, bleakness

Words from these letters

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