bleak

cupo, desolante

Che lascia poche speranze di miglioramento o di un esito positivo.

In inglese semplice: Offering little hope that things will improve or turn out well.

• The future looks bleak.
• Job prospects are bleak in this town.
• The report painted a bleak picture of the economy.

Sinonimi: grim, gloomy, hopeless

Contrari: promising, hopeful

Espressioni comuni: bleak future, bleak prospects, look bleak

desolato, inospitale

Detto di un luogo vuoto, freddo e poco piacevole, che non invita a restare.

In inglese semplice: Empty, cold, and unattractive, with little to make a place feel welcoming.

• The hills looked bleak in winter.
• They crossed a bleak stretch of open land.
• We stayed in a bleak little town by the coast.

Sinonimi: desolate, barren, stark

Contrari: inviting

Espressioni comuni: bleak landscape, bleak hillside, bleak countryside

triste, desolato

Triste e privo di qualsiasi senso di conforto o allegria.

In inglese semplice: Sad and without any feeling of comfort or happiness.

• She felt bleak and lonely.
• Those were bleak days after his wife's death.
• The film shows the family's bleak existence.

Sinonimi: cheerless, miserable, gloomy, desolate

Contrari: cheerful, happy

Espressioni comuni: bleak mood, bleak existence, feel bleak

pallido, smorto

Di colore molto pallido o quasi privo di colore.

In inglese semplice: Very pale, with little or no color.

• Her face was bleak and pale.
• A bleak white light filled the hallway.
• His bleak cheeks showed no trace of color.

Sinonimi: pale, pallid, colorless

Contrari: colorful, rosy

Espressioni comuni: a bleak face, bleak white, bleak complexion

alborella

Piccolo pesce argentato che vive nei fiumi e nei laghi europei.

In inglese semplice: A small silver fish that lives in European rivers and lakes.

• He caught a bleak in the river.
• A shoal of bleak swam near the surface.
• The lake contains perch and bleak.

Sinonimi: ablet, alburn, blay

Espressioni comuni: a small bleak, catch a bleak, common bleak