Meaning & Definition of Grim in English
English⟶
Grim
/grɪm/
adjective
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"
synonym:
- grim,
- inexorable,
- relentless,
- stern,
- unappeasable,
- unforgiving,
- unrelenting
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"
synonym:
- ghastly,
- grim,
- grisly,
- gruesome,
- macabre,
- sick
3. Harshly ironic or sinister
- "Black humor"
- "A grim joke"
- "Grim laughter"
- "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
synonym:
- black,
- grim,
- mordant
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
synonym:
- dour,
- forbidding,
- grim
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"
synonym:
- gloomy,
- grim,
- blue,
- depressed,
- dispirited,
- down(p),
- downcast,
- downhearted,
- down in the mouth,
- low,
- low-spirited
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"
synonym:
- blue,
- dark,
- dingy,
- disconsolate,
- dismal,
- gloomy,
- grim,
- sorry,
- drab,
- drear,
- dreary
Examples of using
In this line of work, if you make a grim face the customers won't come.
The firemen's face was grim when he came out of the burning house.