Word Source - www.word.sc/grim - Dictionary definition for grim

0 / 0

grim

adjective

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"
Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting Similar: implacable
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"; "macabr
Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre Similar: alarming
harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
Synonyms: black, mordant Similar: sarcastic
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"
Synonyms: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy Similar: cheerless, uncheerful
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
Synonyms: dour, forbidding Similar: unpleasant
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"; "the darkening mood"
Synonyms: darkening, gloomy Similar: hopeless

Show all definitions...

Upload Your Photo

Show Complete Word Source Live Entry