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BLEAKNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A bleak and desolate atmosphere
Example:
the nakedness of the landscape
Synonyms:
bareness; bleakness; desolation; nakedness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("bleakness" is a kind of...):
gloom; gloominess; glumness (an atmosphere of depression and melancholy)
Derivation:
bleak (offering little or no hope)
bleak (providing no shelter or sustenance)
bleak (unpleasantly cold and damp)
