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English adjective: grim | |||
| 1. | grim not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | ||
| Samples | 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 | ||
| Antonyms | placable | ||
| 2. | grim shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick | ||
| Similar | alarming | ||
| Antonyms | unalarming | ||
| 3. | grim harshly ironic or sinister | ||
| Samples | Black humor. A grim joke. Grim laughter. Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit. | ||
| Synonyms | black, mordant | ||
| Similar | sarcastic | ||
| Antonyms | unsarcastic | ||
| 4. | grim harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | dour, forbidding | ||
| Similar | unpleasant | ||
| Antonyms | pleasant | ||
| 5. | grim filled with melancholy and despondency | ||
| Samples | 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. | ||
| Synonyms | blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low, low-spirited | ||
| Similar | dejected | ||
| Antonyms | elated | ||
| 6. | grim causing dejection | ||
| Samples | 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, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry | ||
| Similar | cheerless, depressing, uncheerful | ||
| Antonyms | cheerful | ||
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