Associations to the word «Bleak»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

BLEAK, adjective. Offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things".
BLEAK, adjective. Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape".
BLEAK, adjective. Unpleasantly cold and damp; "bleak winds of the North Atlantic".

Wise words

We cannot always control our thoughts, but we can control our words, and repetition impresses the subconscious, and we are then master of the situation.
Florence Scovel Shinn