"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

(2) particularly, especially

Kolokacji: 2

1. particularly bleak = szczególnie ponury particularly bleak

2. especially bleak = szczególnie ponury especially bleak

In this Tudor volume, the lives of the poor look especially bleak.
This represents more bad news for almost all people who work for local government but especially bleak for two groups in particular.
The picture has been especially bleak for black people.
In the light of what was to come, the fullness of his career, the word seems especially bleak.
If deflation is in store, there are fewer places to hide, with home builders and mortgage companies facing especially bleak prospects.
The economy is grim nationwide, but the picture in New York City is especially bleak.
Last January was especially bleak for the travel industry, because of the outbreak of the gulf war.
Forecasts in the reports are especially bleak.
It's under water that things have looked especially bleak.
College textbooks view marriage as especially bleak for women.

(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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