Bleak1, a.
a. [A-S. blāc, blǣce, pale, wan, O. S. blēc, Icel. bleikr, Sw. blek, Dan. bleg, D. bleek, O. H. Ger. pleih, N. H. Ger. bleich, from A-S. blīcan, to shine. See BLEACH.] 1. Without color; pale. [Obs.] When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead. Foxe. 2. Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds. Wastes too bleak to rear The common growth of earth, the foodful ear. Wordsworth. 3. Cold and sweeping; cheerless. “Bleak blows the blast.” Coleridge.