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# bleak

«bleak» in Mova's school dictionary: **Cold, bare and empty of comfort, with no warmth or sun** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adjective (bleak, bleaker, bleakest)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Cold, bare and empty of comfort, with no warmth or sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleak/#m1)

2) Hopeless, with little to look forward to. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleak/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a cold, empty place or a sad, lonely situation in a tale.

### examples

- The bleak moor had no trees. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleak/#x1)
- Clouds hid the sun on a bleak winter day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleak/#x2)
- The little girl felt alone in the bleak streets. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleak/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bleak» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bleak/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.