Definition of grim Grim
/gΙΉΙͺΛm/ - [grim] - grim
We found 16 definitions of grim from 7 different sources.
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Adjectivegrim, grimmer, grimmest |
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| grim - 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" | ||
| inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting | ||
| implacable incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy" | ||
| grim - 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" | ||
| gloomy, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited | ||
| dejected affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" | ||
| grim - 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" | ||
| ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick | ||
| alarming frightening because of an awareness of danger | ||
| grim - 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 | ||
| dour, forbidding | ||
| unpleasant disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" | ||
| grim - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" | ||
| black, mordant | ||
| sarcastic expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | ||
| grim - 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" | ||
| blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, sorry, drab, drear, dreary | ||
| cheerless, depressing, uncheerful causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" | ||
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- grim (Adjective)
dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding. - grim (Adjective)
rigid and unrelenting. - grim (Adjective)
ghastly or sinister. - grim (Adjective)
disgusting; gross.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary π
- grim (Compar.)
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ξ©
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grim
Seeming threatening, haunting, fierce. -
grim
Making despondent or depressive.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary π
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grim
grim, adj. of forbidding aspect: ferocious: ghastly: sullen: stern, unyielding.βadv. Grimβ²ly.βn. Grimβ²ness. [A.S. grim; Ger. grimmigβgrimm, fury, Dut. grimmig, Ice. grimmr.]
Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue π
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grim
Old Mr. Grim; death.
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