About The Word Grim
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Grim Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Grim?
[adj] shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
[adj] causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [adj] characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy" [adj] not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood" [adj] harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [adj] harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" Synonyms | Synonyms for Grim: alarming | black | blue | cheerless | dark | depressing | disconsolate | dismal | dispiriting | dour | forbidding | ghastly | gloomy | grisly | gruesome | hopeless | implacable | inexorable | macabre | mordant | relentless | sarcastic | stern | unappeasable | uncheerful | unforgiving | unpleasant | unrelenting Related Terms | Find terms related to Grim: adamant | adamantine | affording no hope | alarming | anguished | anxious | apathetic | appalling | astounding | astringent | atrocious | austere | authoritarian | awe-inspiring | awesome | awful | baneful | barbarous | barfy | beastly | beetle-browed | black | black-browed | bleak | bloodthirsty | bored | brutal | brutish | bum | cast-iron | certain | cheerless | cheesy | cold | comfortless | crappy | creepy | cruel | crummy | dark | dead set | decided | decorous | dejected | demanding | demure | depressed | despairing | desperate | despondent | determined | dire | direful | dirty | disconsolate | discontented | disgusted | dismal | dogged | dour | dread | dreaded | dreadful | drear | drearisome | dreary | dumpish | earnest | eerie | evil | evil-favored | evil-looking | exacting | exigent | fell | feral | ferocious | fiendish | fierce | firm | fixed | flagitious | flinty | forbidding | foreboding | forlorn | formal | formidable | frightening | frightful | frowning | funebrial | funereal | ghastly | ghoulish | gloomy | glowering | glum | godawful | goshawful | grave | gray | grim-faced | grim-visaged | grisly | grotesque | gruesome | grum | hairy | hard | hard-core | hard-favored | hard-featured | hard-visaged | harrowing | harsh | headstrong | heartless | heinous | hideous | homicidal | hopeless | horrendous | horrible | horrid | horrific | horrifying | humorless | icky | ill-favored | ill-featured | ill-looking | immovable | immutable | implacable | impliable | in bad humor | in despair | inclement | inelastic | inevitable | inexorable | infestive | inflexible | inhuman | inhumane | iniquitous | intractable | intransigent | iron | irreconcilable | joyless | loathsome | long-faced | lowering | lurid | macabre | melancholy | merciless | meticulous | mirthless | miserable | monstrous | moodish | moody | mopey | moping | mopish | morbid | morose | mortal | mumpish | murderous | nauseated | nauseous | obdurate | obstinate | offensive | ominous | out of humor | out of sorts | pitiless | pleasureless | prey to malaise | punk | putrid | redoubtable | relentless | repelled | repugnant | repulsive | resolute | revolted | revolting | rigid | rigorous | rock-ribbed | rotten | rough | rugged | ruthless | sad | saturnine | savage | schrecklich | scowling | sedate | serious | set | severe | shitty | shocking | sickened | sinister | sober | sober-minded | sobersided | solemn | somber | sombrous | sorry | sorryish | Spartan | Spartanic | staid | steadfast | steely | stern | stiff | stinking | stinky | stone-faced | stony | straight-faced | strict | stringent | stubborn | suffering angst | sulky | sullen | surly | terrible | terrific | terrifying | thoughtful | tough | tragic | tremendous | triste | truculent | unaffected | unalterable | unappeasable | unbending | unchangeable | uncheerful | uncheery | uncompromising | uneasy | unflinching | unforgiving | unfulfilled | ungentle | ungiving | ungratified | unhappy | unhopeful | unjoyful | unmirthful | unmoved | unmoving | unprepossessing | unquiet | unrelenting | unsatisfied | unsmiling | unsparing | unspeakable | unwavering | unyielding | vicious | vindictive | violent | vomity | weariful | wearisome | weary | weighty | wicked | without hope | wolfish | wretched | yecchy See Also | Grim In Webster's Dictionary \Grim\, a. [Compar. {Grimmer} (-mer); superl. {Grimmest}.]
[AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv. to G. & D. grimmig, Dan.
grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr, G. gram grief, as adj.,
hostile; cf. Gr. ?, a crushing sound, ? to neigh.]
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
cruel; frightful; horrible.
Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
The ridges of grim war. --Milton.
Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
sour.
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