单词	bleakness
释义	bleakness /ˈbliːknəs / noun [mass noun] 1The quality or state of being bare and inhospitable: the bleakness of that destroyed landscape the grim concrete bleakness... There is no escape from violence in either sphere, no pastoral alternative to the bleakness of the run-down city. What they do capture is the bleakness of the streets. His first Swiss landscapes focused on the grandeur and bleakness of the mountains. 1.1The quality or state of cold and miserable weather: the bleakness of winter the evening’s rainy bleakness... He tells Helen why he loves the marsh even in the bleakness of midwinter. Despite the bleakness outside, she's enjoying her downtime. As the morning bleakness gives way to splatters of rain, stiff-limbed footballers are trudging into the stadium. 1.2The quality or state of being hopeless, discouraging, or unlikely to have a favourable outcome: this story is marked by unrelenting bleakness the atrocities and bleakness of war... If you're going to have a show about undertakers, it can't be just bleakness and depression. It's a downtrodden tale full of woe and misfortune, a portrait of loneliness and bleakness. Their hope, in the very bleakness of their existence, is ultimately shattered, and we realize they are back to square one at best.
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