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English Dictionary: grim |
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2 results for grim |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- grim
- 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"
Synonym(s): grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
- 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"
Synonym(s): ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
- harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
Synonym(s): black, grim, mordant
- 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
Synonym(s): dour, forbidding, 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"
Synonym(s): gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited
- 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"
Synonym(s): blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Grim \Grim\, a. [Compar. {Grimmer} (-mer); superl. {Grimmest}.]
[AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv. to G. & D. grimmig, Dan.
grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr, G. gram grief, as adj.,
hostile; cf. Gr. [?], a crushing sound, [?] to neigh.]
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
cruel; frightful; horrible.
Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
The ridges of grim war. --Milton.
Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
sour.
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