Crossword-Solution: BLEAK 5 letters, 96 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 11

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Word Word Type Definition
Bleak a. Without color; pale; pallid.
Bleak a. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
Bleak a. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
Bleak a. A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the
family Cyprinidae; the blay.

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BLEAK anagram BLAKE, KABEL

We have 96 clues for the answer “BLEAK”

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Like the mood fostered by "Waiting for Godot" 1 answer
EUROPEAN fish, small 1 answer
Dim or grim 1 answer
Far from comforting 1 answer
Far from encouraging 1 answer
Dickens's "___ House" 1 answer
Dickens "House." 1 answer
Desolate and windswept. 1 answer
Desolate and dreary 1 answer
Just about hopeless 1 answer
Lacking kindliness. 1 answer
Cold and miserable 1 answer
Like northern Canada's landscape 1 answer
Cold and dreary 1 answer
Cold and cheerless 1 answer
Not at all promising 1 answer
Arousing pessimism 1 answer
"___ House": Dickens 1 answer
Not promising 1 answer
"Look round and round upon this bare ___ plain ..." (Charles Dickens) 1 answer
Not very promising 1 answer
Offering little hope 1 answer
Opposite of rosy 1 answer
Rather hopeless 1 answer
Stark; barren; dreary 1 answer
Swept by cold winds. 1 answer
With a bad outlook 1 answer
Hardly hospitable 2 answers
EUROPEAN river fish 2 answers
Far from promising 2 answers
Like some prospects 2 answers
Not optimistic 2 answers
Not rosy 2 answers
Far from optimistic 3 answers
Like film noir 3 answers
Like the tundra 3 answers
Far from rosy 3 answers
Hardly promising 4 answers
Like a wasteland 4 answers
Not looking good 6 answers
A FEELING OF DISMAL CHEERLESSNESS 10 answers
like bad news 11 answers
perishing 11 answers
European freshwater fish 14 answers
oppressing 14 answers
depressant 17 answers
stark 20 answers
lonely 25 answers
Saturnine 27 answers
dolesome 31 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with BLEAK (5)

She looked fixedly up the bleak street as if she were gathering her strength to face something, as if she were trying with all her might to grasp a situation which, no matter how painful, must be met and dealt with somehow.
O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991
The spectre, after listening for a moment, joined in the mournful dirge; and floated out upon the bleak, dark night.
A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens 1992
For the mid-term, Armenia's economic prospects seem particularly bleak because of ethnic strife and the unusually high dependence on outside areas, themselves in a chaotic state of transformation.
The 1992 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency. 1993
Eighteen years ago I was in London and I called at an Englishman’s house on a bleak and foggy and dismal December afternoon to visit his wife and married daughter by appointment.
What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993
The world’s broad, bleak atmosphere was all so comfortless! Such, indeed, is the impression which it makes on every new adventurer, even if he plunge into it while the warmest tide of life is bubbling through his veins.
The House of the Seven Gables Nathaniel Hawthorne 1993

Quotes with BLEAK (3)

Hope is not about proving anything. It's about choosing to believe this one thing, that love is bigger than any grim, bleak shit anyone can throw at us.
Anne Lamott Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith
So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused.
Hermann Hesse Siddhartha
No. Don't give up hope just yet. It's the last thing to go. When you have lost hope, you have lost everything. And when you think all is lost, when all is dire and bleak, there is always hope.
Pittacus Lore I Am Number Four
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Slate, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 70 times in crossword archives (1952–2025).