Bleak vs Gloom - What's the difference?
bleak | gloom |
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.
Darkness, dimness or obscurity.
* 1898 , , (Moonfleet) Chapter 4
A melancholy, depressing or despondent atmosphere.
Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness.
* Burke
A drying oven used in gunpowder manufacture.
To be dark or gloomy.
* Goldsmith
* 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger People's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 189:
to look or feel sad, sullen or despondent.
* D. H. Lawrence
To render gloomy or dark; to obscure; to darken.
* Walpole
* Tennyson
To fill with gloom; to make sad, dismal, or sullen.
* Tennyson
* Goldsmith
To shine or appear obscurely or imperfectly; to glimmer.
As nouns the difference between bleak and gloom
is that bleak is a small european river fish (alburnus alburnus ), of the family cyprinidae while gloom is darkness, dimness or obscurity.As an adjective bleak
is without color; pale; pallid.As a verb gloom is
to be dark or gloomy.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.
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) bleikja .Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia bleak)Synonyms
* alburn * blayReferences
Anagrams
* *gloom
English
Noun
(-)- the gloom of a forest, or of midnight
- Here was a surprise, and a sad one for me, for I perceived that I had slept away a day, and that the sun was setting for another night. And yet it mattered little, for night or daytime there was no light to help me in this horrible place; and though my eyes had grown accustomed to the gloom , I could make out nothing to show me where to work.
- A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits.
Derived terms
* doom and gloom * gloomily * (l) (humorous) * gloomyVerb
(en verb)- The black gibbet glooms beside the way.
- Around all the dark forest gloomed .
- Ciss was a big, dark-complexioned, pug-faced young woman who seemed to be glooming about something.
- A bow window gloomed with limes.
- A black yew gloomed the stagnant air.
- Such a mood as that which lately gloomed your fancy.
- What sorrows gloomed that parting day.