transcription, транскрипция: [ bli:k ]
( bleaker, bleakest)
1.
If a situation is bleak , it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
The immediate outlook remains bleak...
Many predicted a bleak future.
= gloomy
≠ bright
ADJ
• bleak‧ness
The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed.
N-UNCOUNT : usu with supp , oft N of n
2.
If you describe a place as bleak , you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive.
The island’s pretty bleak.
...bleak inner-city streets.
ADJ
3.
When the weather is bleak , it is cold, dull, and unpleasant.
The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.
ADJ
4.
If someone looks or sounds bleak , they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy.
Alberg gave him a bleak stare.
ADJ
• bleak‧ly
‘There is nothing left,’ she says bleakly.
ADV : usu ADV with v , also ADV adj