What are the antonyms for BLEAK?
- joyful, optimistic, glad, sympathetic, peaceful, serene, hospitable, nice, happy, buoyant, friendly, appealing, cheerful, lighthearted, joyous, encouraging, calm, hot, comfortable, halcyon, bright, lightsome, heartwarming, light, comforting, hopeful, sunny, congenial, placid, cordial, tepid, rainless, unclouded, warm, pleasant.
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Synonyms for BLEAK
- stony,
- long-faced,
- melancholy,
- heavy-hearted,
- heartbroken,
- out of tune,
- fixed,
- harsh,
- hyperborean,
- forgotten,
- curt,
- mirthless,
- curious,
- gaunt,
- wild,
- unblinking,
- hangdog,
- septic,
- broken,
- rimy,
- down in the dumps,
- hawkish,
- piquant,
- have the blahs,
- cleared,
- no nonsense,
- dismayed,
- in the pits,
- taut,
- austere,
- doom-laden,
- strict,
- in low spirits,
- mischievous,
- cynical,
- out-of-tune,
- Asperous,
- have goose bumps,
- pleading,
- despairing,
- abandoned,
- tight-lipped,
- dreamy,
- biting,
- mild,
- woeful,
- spiritless,
- cold,
- dirgelike,
- wide-eyed,
- disciplined,
- cheerless,
- superincumbent,
- dim,
- blue,
- low,
- quizzical,
- out-of-key,
- stark,
- oppressive,
- epic,
- devilish,
- unrewarding,
- germ-free,
- unprolific,
- demanding,
- below zero,
- tuneless,
- harassed,
- downcast,
- worried,
- careworn,
- wan,
- unsheltered,
- unlit,
- pessimistic,
- glowering,
- basic,
- green,
- in blue funk,
- weather-beaten,
- solitary,
- acute,
- acheronian,
- hidebound,
- three-dog night,
- dejected,
- pleadingly,
- cranky,
- awful,
- obdurate,
- down in mouth,
- cool,
- exacting,
- blunt,
- haunted,
- dull as dishwater,
- chapfallen,
- wild-eyed,
- bug-eyed,
- rotten,
- wolfish,
- sombre,
- wanly,
- down in dumps,
- blasted,
- exposed,
- spartan,
- icebox,
- homesick,
- flattened,
- wry,
- woefully,
- slack-jawed,
- distressed,
- bummed out,
- grumpy,
- overclouded,
- frowning,
- wretched,
- tart,
- appealing,
- unenviable,
- abrupt,
- sombrer,
- uncompromising,
- raw,
- uninhabited,
- nagging,
- shot down,
- sanitized,
- unpromising,
- obstinate,
- prudish,
- hiemal,
- down and out,
- effortful,
- depressive,
- meaningful,
- mobile,
- withering,
- great,
- forlorn,
- discouraged,
- bombed,
- wind-swept,
- radiant,
- dusky,
- let-down,
- stiff-necked,
- scratchy,
- fundamental,
- characterless,
- comfortless,
- open,
- adusk,
- barebones,
- morose,
- stripped,
- pasteurized,
- unilluminated,
- shamefaced,
- funereal,
- coldblooded,
- Grieved,
- pitying,
- forsaken,
- dismal,
- frore,
- despondent,
- windswept,
- deflated,
- nameless,
- hard,
- anguished,
- hunted,
- uninfected,
- sleety,
- discouraging,
- chill,
- astringent,
- negative,
- disheartening,
- hopelessly,
- deforested,
- sad,
- weary,
- desperate,
- glum,
- lightless,
- keen,
- unfurnished,
- fatalistic,
- not smooth,
- subfuse,
- brumal,
- broody,
- shattered,
- intolerant,
- smiley,
- peaky,
- darkish,
- in pain,
- miserable,
- objectionable,
- crisp,
- dreary,
- grief-stricken,
- Drearisome,
- atrabilious,
- all torn up,
- acherontic,
- waste,
- blank,
- unmentionable,
- scorched,
- unpalatable,
- joyless,
- deserted,
- brutal,
- Woful,
- glazed,
- oppressed,
- authoritarian,
- rigorous,
- off-putting,
- unquiet,
- precise,
- down,
- dark,
- desert,
- expressionless,
- puritanical,
- chilly,
- straight-faced,
- uncreative,
- choked up,
- rough going,
- acrimonious,
- dour,
- cast down,
- inflexible,
- depressed,
- severe,
- unappetizing,
- inhospitable,
- unwelcome,
- intense,
- distressing,
- crepuscular,
- downbeat,
- screwed up,
- relentless,
- dark-complexioned,
- depressing,
- dispirited,
- stringent,
- griefstricken,
- sulky,
- numbing,
- undraped,
- disagreeable,
- correct,
- strait-laced,
- blighted,
- disheartened,
- brooding,
- unpopulated,
- unfulfilled,
- deadpan,
- frosty,
- Mopish,
- pained,
- stern,
- ascetic,
- regretful,
- monotonous,
- critical,
- bleak,
- inconsolable,
- downhearted,
- barren,
- suicidal,
- lusterless,
- sterile,
- one-dog night,
- unbending,
- squawky,
- two-dog night,
- unsparing,
- cutting,
- thankless,
- desolate,
- bare,
- meticulous,
- injured,
- vacant,
- draconian,
- heavy,
- gloomy,
- lean,
- mournful,
- icy,
- heartsick,
- Broken-hearted,
- flat,
- sepulchral,
- wintry,
- Whipped,
- unedifying,
- drear,
- hard as nails,
- Infecund,
- draggy,
- scraggiest,
- lovelorn,
- shivery,
- uninviting,
- Stridulous,
- nature,
- spare,
- infernal,
- black,
- hardboiled,
- germfree,
- craggy,
- like a bag of bones,
- unmelodious,
- etched,
- dry,
- down-in-the-mouth,
- hibernal,
- unpleasant,
- in a blue funk,
- unattractive,
- skin and bones,
- acerbic,
- scraggy,
- hopeless,
- brisk,
- imperial,
- iced,
- ironhanded,
- lousy,
- head ache,
- defeatist,
- somber,
- unlevel,
- darkly,
- lonely,
- wistful,
- unpropitious,
- Bulldozed,
- tenebrific,
- verdant,
- twilit,
- beatific,
- doleful,
- sorrowful,
- sharp,
- lugubrious,
- unhappy,
- grave,
- grim,
- sadly,
- bad,
- thoughtful,
- devastated,
- claustrophobic,
- below freezing,
- rigid,
- gruff,
- brusque,
- apocalyptic,
- absent,
- woebegone,
- unleavened,
- slimy,
- cut-up,
- short,
- censorious,
- bleakly,
- uninventive,
- regretfully,
- burned,
- roguish,
- algid,
- caustic,
- bare-bones,
- unreadable.
Usage Examples for BLEAK
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They were large and high and looked down upon the garden, though that on a bleak December day was not very cheerful- but there were possibilities. - "My First Years As A Frenchwoman, 1876-1879" by Mary King Waddington
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Was she, by any cursed chance, facing a bleak time when she would have to cherish herself? - "Youth and the Bright Medusa" by Willa Cather
