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 Bleak a.
 1. Without color; pale; pallid. [Obs.]
    When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.   --Foxe.
 2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
 Wastes too bleak to rear
 The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.   --Wordsworth.
    At daybreak, on the bleak sea beach.   --Longfellow.
 3. Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.
 -- Bleak*ish, a. -- Bleak*ly, adv. -- Bleak*ness, n.

 bleakness
      n : a bleak and desolate atmosphere [syn: desolation]