Translations: the word in the other languages
- Afrikaans: donker
- Amharic: bleak
- Arabic: قاتمة
- Azerbaijani: безрадостно
- Bashkir: безрадостно
- Belarusian: бязрадасна
- Bulgarian: безрадостно
- Bengali: নিরানন্দ
- Bosnian: sumorna
- Catalan: ombrívol
- Cebuano: dulom
- Czech: bezútěšný
- Welsh: llwm
- Danish: dyster
- German: düster
- Greek: ζοφερή
- Esperanto: senornama
- Spanish: desolador
- Estonian: kõle
- Basque: latz
- Persian: تلخ
- Finnish: synkkä
- French: sombre
- Irish: gruama
- Scottish Gaelic: bleak
- Galician: desolador
- Gujarati: ઉદાસ
- Hebrew: עגום
- Hindi: धूमिल
- Croatian: безрадостно
- Haitian: fèb
- Hungarian: sivár
- Armenian: безрадостно
- Indonesian: suram
- Icelandic: hráslagalegur
- Italian: tetro
- Japanese: 暗
- Javanese: spanyol
- Georgian: თაღლითა
- Kazakh: безрадостно
- Khmer: ក្រៀមក្រំ
- Kannada: ಬ್ಲೀಕ್
- Korean: 황량
- Kyrgyz: безрадостно
- Latin: acidus
- Luxembourgish: düster
- Lao: ຣ່ານ
- Lithuanian: liūdna
- Latvian: drūmas
- Malagasy: manjombona
- Mari: илышлан
- Maori: bleak
- Macedonian: мрачна
- Malayalam: നീങ്ങുന്നുവെന്ന
- Mongolian: лаазтай
- Marathi: उदास
- Hill Mari: кочо
- Malay: suram
- Maltese: mċajpra
- Burmese: ညို့
- Nepali: जाहिर
- Dutch: somber
- Norwegian: bleak
- Punjabi: ਛੁੱਟਦੀ
- Papiamento: dolor
- Polish: ponura
- Portuguese: sombrio
- Romanian: sumbră
- Russian: безрадостно
- Sinhalese: අඳුරු
- Slovak: bezútešný
- Slovenian: žalostno
- Albanian: të zymtë
- Serbian: безрадостно
- Sundanese: suram
- Swedish: dyster
- Swahili: kiza
- Tamil: இருண்ட
- Telugu: బ్లీక్
- Tajik: безрадостно
- Thai: เลือน
- Tagalog: malungkot
- Turkish: kasvetli
- Tatar: безрадостно
- Udmurt: безрадостно
- Ukrainian: безрадісно
- Urdu: تاریک
- Uzbek: qurilish bo'yicha bosh direktor
- Vietnamese: ảm đạm
- Xhosa: bleak
- Yiddish: ומבאַפעלקערט
- Chinese: 黯淡
Synonyms, close and similar words for bleak
- joyless
- bitter
- cheerless
- comfortless
- disconsolate
- desolate
- sad
- mirthless
- forlorn
- somber
- lurid
- sombre
- grim
- sullen
- mournful
- sinister
- gloomy
- dystopian
- solemn
- lugubrious
- drear
- dour
- macabre
- inclement
- austere
- cloudy
- morbid
- morose
- sepulchral
- cold
- chill
- dismal
- dreary
- moody
- melancholy
- downbeat
- murky
- despondent
- sunless
- lonesome
- godforsaken
- depressing
- glum
- tenebrous
- saturnine
- dull
- dim
- dire
- harsh
- stark
- dark
- black
- downcast
- bare
- miserable
- wretched
- barren
- dank
- chilly
- rough
- grey
- chilling