Related Words for bleak

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dim
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Adjective, Adjective
cold
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Adjective, Adjective, Noun
bare
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Noun, Adjective
desolate
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Adjective, Adjective
stark
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Adjective, Adjective, Name
hopeless
/x
Name, Adjective
barren
/x
Adjective, Adjective
inhospitable
x/xxx
Adjective, Adjective
black
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Adjective, Adjective
cutting
/x
Adjective, Adjective
raw
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Adjective, Adjective
grim
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Adjective
gloomy
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Adjective
dismal
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Adjective
cheerless
/x
Adjective
glum
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Noun
depressing
x/x
Adjective
dreary
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Adjective
unpromising
x/xx
Adjective
dire
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Adjective
dour
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Noun
ominous
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Adjective
nightmarish
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Adjective
dark
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Adjective
sombre
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Adjective
pessimistic
xx/x
Adjective
miserable
/xxx
Adjective
forlorn
x/
Adjective
morose
x/
Adjective
somber
/x
Adjective
rosy
/x
Adjective
dull
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Adjective
downbeat
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Noun
drab
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Noun
dreadful
/x
Adjective
despairing
x/x
Noun
harsh
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Adjective
stormy
/x
Adjective
frightening
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Adjective
dispiriting
x/xx
Adjective
murky
/x
Adjective
disquieting
x/xx
Adjective
harrowing
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Noun
foreboding
x/x
Noun
doleful
/x
Adjective
joyless
/x
Adjective
unsettling
x/xx
Adjective
gritty
/x
Noun
nihilistic
/xxx
Adjective
sobering
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Adjective
horrifying
/xxx
Adjective
terrifying
/xxx
Adjective
foggy
/x
Adjective
apocalyptic
xxx/x
Noun
cheery
/x
Adjective
ghastly
/x
Adjective
awful
/x
Adjective
hellish
/x
Adjective
lugubrious
x/xx
Adjective
unnerving
x/x
Adjective
brutal
/x
Adjective
wretched
/x
Adjective
unappealing
xx/x
Adjective
troubling
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Adjective
snowy
/x
Noun
grimy
/x
Adjective
surreal
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Adjective
uncertain
x/x
Adjective
rainy
/x
Adjective
perilous
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Adjective
optimistic
xx/x
Adjective
fatalistic
xx/x
Adjective
idyllic
x/x
Adjective
precarious
x/xx
Adjective
scary
/x
Adjective
mournful
/x
Adjective
disturbingly
x/xx
Adverb
squalid
/x
Adjective
sullen
/x
Adjective
eerie
/x
Noun
austere
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Adjective
sorrowful
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Adjective
bright
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Adjective
windswept
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Adjective
menacing
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Adjective
lonely
/x
Adjective
hauntingly
/xx
Adverb
uninspiring
xx/x
Adjective
wintry
/x
Adjective
horrific
x/x
Adjective
disappointing
xx/x
Adjective
unforgiving
xx/x
Adjective
cloudy
/x
Noun
disconsolate
xxxx
Adjective
tragic
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Adjective
devastatingly
/xxxx
Adverb
misty
/x
Noun
sparse
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Adjective
tumultuous
x/xx
Adjective
pitiful
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Adjective
pitiless
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Adjective
melancholy
/xxx
Noun
woeful
/x
Adjective
wasteland
/x
Noun
gruesome
/x
Adjective
outlook
/x
Noun
heartbreaking
/xx
Adjective
abysmal
x/x
Adjective
hazy
/x
Adjective
sinister
/xx
Adjective
horrid
/x
Adjective
horrible
/xx
Adjective
dingy
/x
Adjective
upbeat
/x
Adjective
sordid
/x
Adjective
rough
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Adjective
terrible
/xx
Adjective
blake
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Name
pasty
/x
Noun
blanched
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Adjective
gaunt
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Noun
pallid
/x
Adjective
ashen
/x
Adjective
monochromatic
xxx/x
Adjective
washed out
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Phrase, Adjective
pale
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Adjective
lurid
/x
Adjective
leaden
/x
Adjective
gray
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Noun
lackluster
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Adjective
dusky
/x
Noun
light
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Noun
blue
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Noun
livid
/x
Noun
pearly
/x
Adjective
brown
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Name
bland
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Noun
bluish
/x
Adjective
midwinter
//x
Noun
moors
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Noun
fells
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Noun
uplands
/x
Noun
sufficed
x/
Verb
alarming
x/x
Adjective
ancient
/x
Adjective, Noun
anti
/x
Adjective, Noun
arid
/x
Adjective
bad
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
brilliant
/x
Adjective, Noun
cheap
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Adjective, Noun, Verb, Adverb
combine
/x
Verb, Noun
common
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
darkened
/x
Adjective
daunting
/x
Adjective, Noun
desperate
/x
Adjective, Noun
dilapidated
x/xxx
Adjective
discouraging
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
disheartening
x/xx
Adjective
distressing
x/x
Adjective
ex
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Noun, Verb, Adjective
faint
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
foreign
/x
Adjective, Name
frigid
/x
Adjective
frustrating
/xx
Adjective
glacial
/x
Adjective, Noun
gloss
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Noun, Verb
grand
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Noun, Adjective
grave
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Noun, Adjective, Verb
hard
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Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
heavy
/x
Adjective, Adverb, Noun, Verb
icy
/x
Adjective, Noun
indoors
/x
Noun, Adverb
keen
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
low
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Adjective, Noun, Adverb, Verb
mala
/x
Noun
moody
/x
Name, Adjective
near
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Adjective, Adverb, Verb, Noun
petty
/x
Adjective, Noun
poor
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
pro
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Adjective, Noun
remote
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Adjective, Noun, Verb
sad
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Adjective, Verb, Noun
serious
/xx
Adjective, Adverb
severe
x/
Adjective, Noun
simple
/x
Adjective, Noun, Verb
sluggish
/x
Adjective
spooky
/x
Adjective
stoic
/x
Adjective, Noun
swept
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Adjective
tenuous
/xx
Adjective
treeless
/x
Adjective
unfortunate
x/xx
Adjective, Noun
uninhabited
xx/xx
Adjective
weak
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Adjective
windy
/x
Adjective, Noun
shirtless
/x
Adjective
bulletproof
/xx
Adjective, Verb
die
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Verb, Noun