Meaning & Definition of Grim in English

1. 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"

2. 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"

3. Harshly ironic or sinister

• "Black humor"

• "A grim joke"

• "Grim laughter"

• "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

4. 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

5. 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"

6. 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"