grim
/grim/
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Definition
- Adjective:
- Harsh, forbidding, or stern in appearance or manner: Describing something or someone that looks severe, unyielding, or unfriendly.
- Dismal, gloomy, or depressing: Describing a situation, atmosphere, or prospect that is bleak, cheerless, or causing dejection.
- Unpleasant, shocking, or horrifying: Describing something that is ghastly, gruesome, or macabre.
- Unyielding, relentless, or inexorable: Describing a determination, necessity, or force that is impossible to stop or avoid.
Examples of Usage
- Describing appearance or manner:
- He had a grim face that discouraged casual conversation.
- The principal's grim expression told us the news was bad.
- Describing a depressing situation:
- The economic forecast was grim.
- They worked in grim conditions with little hope of improvement.
- Describing something horrifying:
- The detective surveyed the grim scene of the crime.
- The documentary included grim details of the famine.
- Describing something unyielding:
- She faced the challenge with grim determination.
- Grim necessity forced him to sell his family's home.
Advanced Usage
- "Grim reality": The harsh, unpleasant truth of a situation.
- The report forced them to confront the grim reality of climate change.
- "Grim-faced": Having a stern, serious, or unsmiling facial expression.
- The grim-faced soldiers stood guard at the gate.
- "A grim reminder": Something that serves as a stark, unpleasant warning or memory of something bad.
- The abandoned building was a grim reminder of the factory's closure.
Variants and Related Words
- Grimly (adverb): In a grim manner.
- He grimly continued his work despite his exhaustion.
- Grimness (noun): The quality of being grim.
- The grimness of the winter landscape was overwhelming.
Synonyms
- Stern: Severe and serious in appearance or manner.
- Bleak: Lacking in warmth, life, or kindliness; depressing.
- Gruesome: Causing repulsion or horror; grisly.
- Inexorable: Impossible to stop or prevent.
Related Phrases
- Hold on/hang on for grim death: To hold onto something very tightly and with great determination, especially in a dangerous or difficult situation.
- The cyclist held on for grim death as he sped down the rocky path.
Related Idioms
- Like grim death: With extreme tenacity or determination.
- She clung to the rope like grim death until help arrived.
Adjective
- 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
- 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
- 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
- harshly ironic or sinister
- black humor
- a grim joke
- grim laughter
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
- 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
- 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