bleak

sombre, peu encourageant

Qui laisse peu d’espoir d’une amélioration ou d’une issue favorable.

En anglais simple : Offering little hope that things will improve or turn out well.

• The future looks bleak.
• Job prospects are bleak in this town.
• The report painted a bleak picture of the economy.

Synonymes : grim, gloomy, hopeless

Contraires : promising, hopeful

Expressions courantes : bleak future, bleak prospects, look bleak

désolé, inhospitalier

Se dit d’un lieu vide, froid et peu agréable, où l’on ne se sent pas accueilli.

En anglais simple : Empty, cold, and unattractive, with little to make a place feel welcoming.

• The hills looked bleak in winter.
• They crossed a bleak stretch of open land.
• We stayed in a bleak little town by the coast.

Synonymes : desolate, barren, stark

Contraires : inviting

Expressions courantes : bleak landscape, bleak hillside, bleak countryside

triste, morne

Triste, sans rien qui apporte du réconfort ou de la joie.

En anglais simple : Sad and without any feeling of comfort or happiness.

• She felt bleak and lonely.
• Those were bleak days after his wife's death.
• The film shows the family's bleak existence.

Synonymes : cheerless, miserable, gloomy, desolate

Contraires : cheerful, happy

Expressions courantes : bleak mood, bleak existence, feel bleak

pâle, blême

Très pâle, avec peu ou pas de couleur.

En anglais simple : Very pale, with little or no color.

• Her face was bleak and pale.
• A bleak white light filled the hallway.
• His bleak cheeks showed no trace of color.

Synonymes : pale, pallid, colorless

Contraires : colorful, rosy

Expressions courantes : a bleak face, bleak white, bleak complexion

ablette

Petit poisson argenté vivant dans les rivières et les lacs d’Europe.

En anglais simple : A small silver fish that lives in European rivers and lakes.

• He caught a bleak in the river.
• A shoal of bleak swam near the surface.
• The lake contains perch and bleak.

Synonymes : ablet, alburn, blay

Expressions courantes : a small bleak, catch a bleak, common bleak