grim
1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty (Freq. 8)
- grim determination
- grim necessity
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
- relentless persecution
- the stern demands of parenthood
• Syn:
inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
• Similar to:
implacable
• Derivationally related forms:
sternness (for: stern), relentlessness (for: relentless), inexorableness (for: inexorable), inexorability (for: inexorable), grimness
2. shockingly repellent;
inspiring horror (Freq. 7)
- 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
• Syn:
ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
• Similar to:
alarming
• Derivationally related forms:
gruesomeness (for: gruesome), grimness, ghastliness (for: ghastly)
3. harshly ironic or sinister (Freq. 3)
- black humor
- a grim joke
- grim laughter
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
• Syn:
black, mordant
• Similar to:
sarcastic
• Derivationally related forms:
grimness
4. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance (Freq. 1)
- 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
• Syn:
dour, forbidding
• Similar to:
unpleasant
• Derivationally related forms:
grimness
5. filled with melancholy and despondency
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
- gloomy predictions
- a gloomy silence
- took a grim view of the economy
- the darkening mood
- lonely and blue in a strange city
- depressed by the loss of his job
- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
- downcast after his defeat
- feeling discouraged and downhearted
• Syn:
gloomy, blue, depressed, dispirited, down,
downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
• Similar to:
dejected
• Derivationally related forms:
lowness (for: low), downheartedness (for: downhearted), dispiritedness (for: dispirited), gloominess (for: gloomy), low-spiritedness (for: low-spirited)
6. 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
• Syn:
blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal,
gloomy, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
• Similar to:
depressing, cheerless, uncheerful
• Derivationally related forms:
dreariness (for: dreary)
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