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Synonyms for bleakness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : bleek

Phonetic Transcription : blik

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Définition of bleakness

Origin : c.1600, from bleak + -ness.

As in sadness : noun unhappiness, depression
As in barrenness : noun desolateness
As in depression : noun low spirits; despair
As in desolation : noun uninhabitated area; barrenness
As in gloom : noun darkness, blackness

Example sentences :

And he liked East Wellmouth, bareness and bleakness and lonesomeness and all.
Extract from : « Galusha the Magnificent » by Joseph C. Lincoln

There was a bleakness about the situation which made one gasp.
Extract from : « Jill the Reckless » by P. G. (Pelham Grenville) Wodehouse

But as she entered it that afternoon its air of peace seemed the bleakness of desolation.
Extract from : « Robert Orange » by John Oliver Hobbes

But in partial compensation for this bleakness is a fine ruggedness.
Extract from : « Contemporary American Composers » by Rupert Hughes

The warmth of the room was very agreeable in contrast to the bleakness of out-doors.
Extract from : « At Fault » by Kate Chopin.

Everyday light had filled her with bleakness and disillusion.
Extract from : « Amabel Channice » by Anne Douglas Sedgwick

The summits of the Norwegian Fjelds have only the charm of wildness and bleakness.
Extract from : « Northern Travel » by Bayard Taylor

He stood in his shirt-sleeves, though there was a bleakness in the wind that hinted of December.
Extract from : « The Debatable Land » by Arthur Colton

The winter came and went, but it brought no sense of dreariness or bleakness to Meg.
Extract from : « Meg's Friend » by Alice Abigail Corkran

She was like her own New England in its bleakness, without its summer warmth.
Extract from : « Rose MacLeod » by Alice Brown

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