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Grim

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Definitions for Grim

adjective
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Synonyms
inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting
Examples
  1. grim determination
  2. grim necessity
  3. Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
  4. relentless persecution
  5. the stern demands of parenthood
adjective
shockingly repellent
Synonyms
ghastly grisly gruesome macabre sick
Examples
  1. inspiring horror
  2. ghastly wounds
  3. the grim aftermath of the bombing
  4. the grim task of burying the victims
  5. a grisly murder
  6. gruesome evidence of human sacrifice
  7. macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages
  8. macabre tortures conceived by madmen
adjective
harshly ironic or sinister
Synonyms
black mordant
Examples
  1. black humor
  2. a grim joke
  3. grim laughter
  4. fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
adjective
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Synonyms
dour forbidding
Examples
  1. a dour, self-sacrificing life
  2. a forbidding scowl
  3. a grim man loving duty more than humanity
  4. undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
adjective
filled with melancholy and despondency
Synonyms
gloomy blue depressed dispirited down(p) downcast downhearted down in the mouth low low-spirited
Examples
  1. gloomy at the thought of what he had to face
  2. gloomy predictions
  3. a gloomy silence
  4. took a grim view of the economy
  5. the darkening mood
  6. lonely and blue in a strange city
  7. depressed by the loss of his job
  8. a dispirited and resigned expression on her face
  9. downcast after his defeat
  10. feeling discouraged and downhearted
adjective
causing dejection
Synonyms
blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy sorry drab drear dreary
Examples
  1. a blue day
  2. the dark days of the war
  3. a week of rainy depressing weather
  4. a disconsolate winter landscape
  5. the first dismal dispiriting days of November
  6. a dark gloomy day
  7. grim rainy weather

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