bleak

Modifying Another Word

• uniformly: Having stated that this is a more positive album for him, the lyrics are uniformly bleak.
• pretty: It's got a pretty bleak outlook on old age.
• rather: The overall picture is therefore rather bleak for the American armed forces.
• utterly: Lysistrata was produced in 411 BC - when Athens ' situation looked utterly bleak.
• somewhat: The hand of man is visible in this somewhat bleak park.
• fairly: It was looking fairly bleak, with a deep covering of fresh new snow covering the boulders.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• look: Your Price Furniture Is your garden looking a bit bleak and uninviting?

Modifies a noun

• mid-winter: Saracens Feel The Bite A wet January afternoon in Watford really does go a long way to defining a bleak mid-winter 's day.
• midwinter: Feeling included and bonded to your group is crucial in the bleak midwinter.
• moorland: We'd made such good time we pressed on just to get to " the Lion " high up on the bleak moorland.
• outlook: The bleak economic outlook is the result of BNFL's loss of income from domestic reprocessing work.
• moor: My school was about 4 or 5 file miles away on the bleak moors.
• wasteland: Stores like Marks & Spencer came to the site - still a bleak wasteland - and politely declined.

Used with adjective complement

• look: Things are looking bleak for God's people who are seeking to be faithful.
• seem: Why does the future of the sugar industry seem bleak?
• appear: It has to be said that at times the outlook appears bleak.
• remain: Meanwhile, life in occupied country C remains bleak.
• become: The settings of the film are dark, but never to the point where they become bleak.
• sound: The island sounds bleak, windy and unattractive, but after months on Gallipoli it must have seemed like paradise.

Preposition: in

• winter: No doubt it is also bleak in the winter.