[
US
/ˈbɫiknəs/
]
[ UK /blˈiːknəs/ ]
[ UK /blˈiːknəs/ ]
NOUN
-
a bleak and desolate atmosphere
the nakedness of the landscape
How To Use bleakness In A Sentence
- And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
- She seduces the despondent radical with whispers about the bleakness of mankind.
- I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
- And then a kind of bleakness about the present and then just a blank space about the future. Times, Sunday Times
- What they do capture is the bleakness of the streets.
- It was a brave new world recovering from the atrocities and bleakness of war.
- There is no escape from violence in either sphere, no pastoral alternative to the bleakness of the run-down city.
- The Park had that peculiar bleakness that foreruns the first promise of spring. Turn About Eleanor
- AOF had a lusher production than previous studio outings; the bleakness was gone, but other strengths came to the for, a wider pallet of musical meaning and allusion became available. The Blue Oyster Cult – A Lifelong Fascination With High Weirdness « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS
- The soaring purity of her voice conjured up the frozen bleakness of the Far North.