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bleak
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bli?k/
- Rhymes: -i?k
Etymology 1
From Middle English bleke (also bleche > English bleach (“pale, bleak”)), and bleike (due to Old Norse), and earlier Middle English blak, blac (“pale, wan”), from Old English bl?c, bl??, bl?c (“bleak, pale, pallid, wan, livid; bright, shining, glittering, flashing”) and Old Norse bleikr (“pale, whitish”), from Proto-Germanic *blaikaz (“pale, shining”). Cognate with Dutch bleek (“pale, wan, pallid”), Low German blek (“pale”), German bleich (“pale, wan, sallow”), Danish bleg (“pale”), Swedish blek (“pale, pallid”), Norwegian Bokmål bleik, blek (“pale”), Norwegian Nynorsk bleik (“pale”), Faroese bleikur (“pale”), Icelandic bleikur (“pale, pink”).
Adjective
bleak (comparative bleaker, superlative bleakest)
- Without color; pale; pallid.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
- 1563, John Foxe, Actes and Monuments
- Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
- Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
- 1793, William Wordsworth, Descriptive Sketches
- Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
Synonyms
- (sickly pale): see also Thesaurus:pallid
Derived terms
- bleaken
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English bleke (“small river fish, bleak, blay”), perhaps an alteration (due to English bl?c (“bright”) or Old Norse bleikja) of Old English bl??e (“bleak, blay, gudgeon”); or perhaps from a diminutive of Middle English *bleye (“blay”), equivalent to blay +? -ock or blay +? -kin. See blay.
Noun
bleak (plural bleaks or bleak)
- A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
Synonyms
- ablet
- alburn
- blay
Derived terms
- sunbleak
Translations
References
Anagrams
- Balke, Blake, Kaleb, blake
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forsaken
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /f???se?k?n/
- Rhymes: -e?k?n
- Hyphenation: for?sak?en
Adjective
forsaken (comparative more forsaken, superlative most forsaken)
- Deserted; abandoned.
- Helpless.
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
forsaken
- past participle of forsake
Anagrams
- oak ferns
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