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bleak

/bliːk/ · adjective

Meaning

  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
  3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
  4. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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