BLACK vs BLEAK: NOUN
- British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
- Total absence of light
- Popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927)
- A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
- The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
- Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)
- The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
- A pigment or dye having this color value.
- Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
- Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
- A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
- An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
- Something that is colored black.
- The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
- The player using these pieces.
- The condition of making or operating at a profit.
- (board games) the darker pieces
- Any of various small European freshwater fishes of the genus Alburnus, having silvery scales.
- An English name of a small cyprinoid fish, Alburnus lucidus. Other forms of the name are bleik, blick. Also called blay.
- A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidæ; the blay.
- A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.
BLACK vs BLEAK: ADJECTIVE
- Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor.
- Attended with disaster; calamitous.
- Marked by anger or sullenness.
- Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue.
- Served without milk or cream.
- Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations.
- Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified.
- Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
- Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
- Extremely dark
- Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor.
- Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin
- Evil; wicked.
- Soiled, as from soot; dirty.
- Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.
- Very dark in color.
- Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
- Having little or no light.
- Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
- (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood
- Distributed or sold illicitly
- Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable
- (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin
- (of coffee) without cream or sugar
- Dressed in black
- Cheerless and depressing; gloomy.
- Soiled with dirt or soot
- (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
- Offering little or no hope
- (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading
- Harshly ironic or sinister
- Marked by anger or resentment or hostility
- Cold and cutting; cheerless.
- Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
- Without color; pale; pallid.
- Exposed to the elements; unsheltered and barren.
- Cold and cutting; raw.
- Providing no encouragement; depressing.
- Gloomy and somber.
- Unhappy; cheerless; miserable.
- Offering little or no hope
- Unpleasantly cold and damp
- Providing no shelter or sustenance
BLACK vs BLEAK: VERB
- Make or become black
- N/A
BLACK vs BLEAK: INTRANSITIVE VERB
- To become black.
- To boycott as part of a labor union action.
- To apply blacking to.
- To make black.
- N/A
BLACK vs BLEAK: OTHER WORD TYPES
- A person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today
- Wicked or dishonorable
- Bringing ruin
- To poach. See black, n., 8.
- To become black; take on a black color.
- To blacken; stain; sully; defame.
- To clean and polish (shoes, etc.) by blacking and brushing them.
- To make black; blacken or put a black color on; soil; stain: as, to black one's hands.
- Dark-complexioned.
- Pale; pallid; wan; of a sickly hue.
- Cheerless; dreary.
- Cold; chill; piercing; desolating.
- To make white or pale; bleach.
- To become white or pale.
- To blacken; darken.
- Exposed to cold and winds; desolate; bare of vegetation.
BLACK vs BLEAK: RELATED WORDS
- Evil, Angry, Opprobrious, Dim, Dirty, Colorful, Blackened, Clothed, Achromatic, Achromatic, Clad, Negroid, Dark, Negro, Colored
- Dire, Glum, Grim, Gloomy, Cutting, Black, Raw, Cold, Bare, Inhospitable, Barren, Desolate, Hopeless, Dim, Stark
BLACK vs BLEAK: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Evil, Angry, Opprobrious, Dim, Dirty, Colorful, Blackened, Clothed, Achromatic, Achromatic, Clad, Negroid, Dark, Negro, Colored
- Dire, Glum, Grim, Gloomy, Cutting, Black, Raw, Cold, Bare, Inhospitable, Barren, Desolate, Hopeless, Dim, Stark
BLACK vs BLEAK: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- This week at my house I have a black dog, gray cat, and two black horses.
- The black tabletop, black ceramics, and white cabinetry look fabulous against a backdrop of natural wood.
- Blacks began to boycott businesses in black neighborhoods that would not hire black workers.
- Buttercup and barnevelder chicks are brown with black markings and black ameraucana chicks are black and white.
- The Silkie bird is black throughout: skin, muscles and bones are all black.
- COLOR: White clock face with black numbers and black mounting frame.
- OHA percent black households are located in predominantly black census tracts.
- Chicago and stop the black on black crime?
- White indentured servants, free black servants, free black children of indentured servants, free black servants turned black slave owners, and so forth.
- The Mezzo has multiple viewing modes, including black on white, white on black, green on black, yellow on black and yellow on blue.
- James Hawkins of accessible from the bleak North.
- The situation is pretty bleak on this front.
- In this bleak scene the steadfastness of Col.
- The future of ASU is looking more bleak.
- Things are looking pretty bleak for Michigan State.
- He offered a bleak assessment of the industry.
- The chances of a peaceful settlement seem bleak.
- The weather was perfect - bleak and cold.
- Bleak, bleak the east wind sobs and sighs, And drowns the turret bell, Whose sad note, undistinguished, dies Unheard, like my farewell!
- The debt outlook is certainly bleak, but it is slightly less bleak than it seemed a few months ago.
BLACK vs BLEAK: QUESTIONS
- What did the Royal Black Institution say about the Black Saturday incident?
- Why does Mr Hooper wear a black veil in the Minister's Black Veil?
- Is not acting black the most important rule for dating a black woman?
- Can Monistat for black hair growth be mixed with Jamaican black castor oil?
- How do you find the black height of a red black tree?
- Is Djarum Black cigars the same as djarums black clove cigarettes?
- Why does my black justified order ship with a black band?
- Is Dorea black related to Sirius Black and James Potter?
- What is the black market in Black Ops 3 multiplayer?
- Are black gram whole lentils the same as black beans?
- Who are the characters in Bleak House by John Steinbeck?
- When was the book Bleak House by Charles Dickens published?
- What is the plot of Bleak House by Esther Summerson?
- What are the bleak walkers in pillars of Eternity 2?
- What is the significance of Bleak House to American history?
- What happened to the Israelites when things looked bleak?
- How does Esther become the mistress of Bleak House?
- What episode does Arthur quote in the Bleak Midwinter?
- What happened to Charles Dickens father in Bleak House?
- What does Esther Summerson symbolize in Bleak House?