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bleakness
(encz) | bleakness,nehostinnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
bleakness
(encz) | bleakness,pochmurnost n: Zdeněk Brož |
bleakness
(encz) | bleakness,ponurost n: Zdeněk Brož |
Bleakness
(gcide) | Bleak \Bleak\ (bl[=e]k), a. [OE. blac, bleyke, bleche, AS.
bl[=a]c, bl[=ae]c, pale, wan; akin to Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek,
Dan. bleg, OS. bl[=e]k, D. bleek, OHG. pleih, G. bleich; all
from the root of AS. bl[imac]can to shine; akin to OHG.
bl[imac]chen to shine; cf. L. flagrare to burn, Gr. fle`gein
to burn, shine, Skr. bhr[=a]j to shine, and E. flame.
[root]98. Cf. Bleach, Blink, Flame.]
1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
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When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as
one that were laid out dead. --Foxe.
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2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
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Wastes too bleak to rear
The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
--Wordsworth.
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At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach. --Longfellow.
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3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
[1913 Webster] -- Bleak"ish, a. -- Bleak"ly, adv. --
Bleak"ness, n.
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bleakness
(wn) | bleakness
n 1: a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the
landscape" [syn: bleakness, desolation, bareness,
nakedness] |
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