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bleak

/bliːk/ adjetivo C1

En español: sin color, pálido, desolado, yermo

  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. · a bleak and bare rock· a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape
  3. Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate. · Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.· A bleak future is in store for you.

Comparativo bleaker · Superlativo bleakest

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It was a bleak and boisterous night and the wind whistled shrilly down the long street.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes, p. 20 · C1
It was familiar ground to me, and I needed no guiding as we ascended the bleak stone staircase and made our way down the long corridor with its vista of whitewashed wall and dun-coloured doors.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 6 · B2
And yet it cannot be denied that the prosperity of the whole poor, bleak countryside depends upon his presence.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 28 · C1
The road in front of us grew bleaker and wilder over huge russet and olive slopes, sprinkled with giant boulders.
The Hound of the Baskervilles, p. 68 · C1

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