Bleak vs Attery - What's the difference?
bleak | attery |
Without color; pale; pallid.
* Foxe
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
* Wordsworth
* Longfellow
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidae.
(dialectal, or, archaic) Poisonous; venomous
(dialectal, or, archaic) Pernicious
(of a wound or sore, dialectal, or, archaic) Purulent; containing pus or matter
(of mood or disposition, dialectal, or, archaic) Bad-tempered; spiteful; quarrelsome; peevish; angry; hot-headed
(of weather, dialectal, or, archaic) Cold; bleak; grim
(of weather, dialectal, or, archaic) Cold, bleak weather.
As adjectives the difference between bleak and attery
is that bleak is without color; pale; pallid while attery is (dialectal|or|archaic) poisonous; venomous.As nouns the difference between bleak and attery
is that bleak is a small european river fish (alburnus alburnus ), of the family cyprinidae while attery is (of weather|dialectal|or|archaic) cold, bleak weather.bleak
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bleke (also bleche > English .Adjective
(er)- When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
- Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
- at daybreak, on the bleak sea beach
- A bleak and bare rock.
- They escaped across the bleak landscape.
- A bleak , crater-pocked moonscape.
- We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
- Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
- A bleak future is in store for you.
- The news is bleak .
- The survey paints a bleak picture.