bleaky impressive

tinanam0102'a bleaky impressive coastline'?

A bleakly impressive coastline. means a hardly impressive coastline, lacking any pleasant features...

Prajwal

Hi Prajwal,

Thanks for your help. My trouble with this sentence is:

Is the coastline impressive (which is full of pleasant features), and then you have an adverb bleaky ?

TN

tinanam0102Is the coastline impressive (which is full of pleasant features)

I had said that the coastline doesn't have any pleasant features, it looks void, that's what the word bleakly tells you.

That is a bit like an oxymoron, which is a figure of speech that employs mutually exclusive opposite ideas, for example, "sad joy", "the sounds of silence", and George Carlin's tongue-in-cheek "jumbo shrimp". Things that are bleak are not normally thought to be impressive. Bleak things are featureless and uninteresting. The writer means that the coastline was both bleak and impressive. There are p

Hi enoon,

'A bleakly impressive coastline.' This is from oxford learner dictionary. Do you mean the sentence is:

The coastline is both impressive and bleak.

Thanks
TN

tinanam0102Hi enoon,'A bleakly impressive coastline.' This is from oxford learner dictionary. Do you mean the sentence is:The coastline is both impressive and bleak.ThanksTN

No. I meant what I typed up there. It is impressive in a bleak way. It is bleak in an impressive way. It is nonetheless impressive for its overwhelming bleakness. It is nonetheless bleak f

Hi enoon,

Thanks for your help.
TN

tinanam0102 A bleakly impressive coastline ... The coastline is both impressive and bleak.

That's it. I agree with enoon - "impressive for its overwhelming bleakness". Its bleakness is what makes it impressive.

CJ

Hi CalifJim,

Thanks for help.
TN