"bleak" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

bleak adjetivo

bleak + sustantivo

Kolokacji: 84

bleak picture • bleak landscape • bleak future • bleak place • bleak prospect • ...

verbo + bleak

Kolokacji: 5

look bleak • grow bleak • turn bleak • sound bleak • feel bleak

adverbio + bleak

Kolokacji: 15

pretty bleak • particularly bleak • equally bleak • increasingly bleak • far bleaker • ...

Grup znaczeniowych: 5

(1) pretty, fairly, somewhat

Kolokacji: 3

1. pretty bleak = całkiem ponury pretty bleak

But you've got to admit things are looking pretty bleak.
It has to or else the future looks pretty bleak.
I look forward to seeing the film, but I'm sure it will be pretty bleak.
"As for me, life would have been a pretty bleak stretch, with you left out."
"The dating scene is pretty bleak these days," she says.
"The days looked pretty bleak, but Mark never really gave up hope."
The future looks pretty bleak as regards our society in general.
Things seem pretty bleak and I think that feeling had a lot to do with the writing of the record.
My father had just died of cancer, and life was pretty bleak.
It's a pretty bleak picture that you're painting right now.

2. fairly bleak = dość ponury fairly bleak

3. somewhat bleak = nieco ponury somewhat bleak

(2) particularly, especially

Kolokacji: 2

(3) equally, similarly

Kolokacji: 2

Kolokacji: 6

(5) unremittingly, unrelentingly

Kolokacji: 2

bleak + preposición

Kolokacji: 3

bleak for • bleak in • bleak with

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