bleaker

ADJECTIVE

barren

Synonyms

STRONGEST

austere chilly cold desolate dreary grim

WEAK

bare blank blighted bombed bulldozed burned cleared deforested desert deserted exposed flat gaunt open raw scorched stripped unpopulated unsheltered weather-beaten wild windswept

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bright cheerful friendly happy hot sympathetic warm

WEAK

appealing comfortable comforting congenial encouraging nice pleasant sunny

ADJECTIVE

depressing

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dark dismal dreary gloomy grim harsh lonely sad somber

WEAK

black cheerless comfortless discouraging disheartening drear funereal hard hopeless joyless melancholy mournful oppressive unpromising

Antonyms

STRONGEST

bright cheerful encouraging glad happy hopeful joyful light pleasant sunny

WEAK

appealing comfortable comforting congenial nice

Example Sentences

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More recently, Darwin reported seeing dugout canoes on Bleaker Island, in the south of East Falkland.

From Salon • Jun. 19, 2024

Bleaker prospects for yuan gains are sapping demand for Dim Sum bonds, debt denominated in the currency that trades in Hong Kong.

From BusinessWeek • Oct. 13, 2011

Bleaker than the 1945 Rodgers & Hammerstein musical film it inspired, Stong’s book connected perfectly with the dark, nostalgic mood of a country struggling through economic calamity.

From New York Times • Aug. 28, 2010

Though to-day my feet are climbing Bleaker heights and harder roads, Still the Christ-church bells are chiming, Still the mid-day gun explodes.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, June 4, 1919. by Various

Bleaker than unmossed stone Our lives were but for this immortal gain Of unstilled longing and inspiring pain!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864 by Various