bleak

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Old Norse bleikr (pale, whitish)[1]. Cognates include Danish bleg and German bleich, unattested Gothic *blaiks[2]; or from Old English blāc[3]

[edit] Adjective

bleak (comparative bleaker, superlative bleakest)

  1. Without color; pale; pallid.
  2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
  3. Cold; cheerless.
    Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
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[edit] Etymology 2

Probably from Old Norse bleikja.

[edit] Noun

Singular
bleak

Plural
bleaks

bleak (plural bleaks)

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  1. A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.
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  • Notes:
  1. ^bleak” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001
  2. ^ Germanic cognates in Deutsches Wörterbuch
  3. ^ [1]

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