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List of meaning for grim

dreary; miserable

grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting(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"

ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick(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"

black, grim, mordant(adj)

harshly ironic or sinister

"black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

dour, forbidding, grim(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

gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited(adj)

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"

blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary(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"

harsh and threatening in manner or appearance a grim and desolate landscape

a grim and short-tempered shopkeeper who didn't exactly invite friendly conversation

difficult to endure

this winter is supposed to be particularly grim, so stock up on firewood

showing no signs of slackening or yielding in one's purpose

with grim determination, the woman worked three jobs to put her fatherless children through college

violently unfriendly or aggressive in disposition

grim warriors heading into battle

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