bleakly

1. 1.

   without hope

   “he wondered bleakly”

Questions about bleakly

What does bleakly mean?

bleakly means "without hope".

How many syllables are in bleakly?

bleakly has 3 syllables and divides as ble-a-kly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is bleakly a common word?

bleakly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.