bleakly

Adverb

Meaning

without hope

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

sadly barely abruptly densely keenly bluntly horribly coldly darkly miserably coolly sternly grimly dreadfully depressingly
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Antonyms

anciently clearly brightly cheerfully gaily serenely
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Phrases with the word

bleakly expecting

Anagrams

Blakely Blakley

Examples

Atticus---"... said Jem bleakly. "How could they do it, how could they?" "I don't know, but they did it. They've done it before & they did it tonight & they'll do it again & when they do it--- seems that only children weep. Harper Lee

he wondered bleakly Source: Internet

It sees Dylan mix gritty blues with folksy storytelling, his signature raspy voice delivering lyrics that switch between bleakly haunting and darkly humorous. Source: Internet

In her wrenching, austere, bleakly comic works, the world — interior and exterior — is always, already burning. Source: Internet

"Law & Order," with its clockwork plots of social and psychic blight that end bleakly or ambiguously, has entered rerun eternity. Source: Internet

His first rough model was of Gotham Plaza, a bleakly futuristic and oppressively urban sendup of Rockefeller Center. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bleaken bleakish Bleakley bleakly expecting bleakness bleakonomics