Definition
Meaning of 'grim'
Meaning of 'grim' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Grim 
[ Compar.]
- Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern;
surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. [ Compar.]Meaning of 'grim' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. grim [ s]
[ s]Meaning (1):
- causing dejection
- causing dejection
Example in sentence:
- a blue day;
- a dark gloomy day;
- a disconsolate winter landscape;
- a week of rainy depressing weather;
- grim rainy weather;
- the dark days of the war;
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
Meaning (2):
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Example in sentence:
- 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
Meaning (3):
- harshly ironic or sinister
- harshly ironic or sinister
Example in sentence:
- a grim joke;
- black humor;
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit;
- grim laughter
Meaning (4):
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Example in sentence:
- a grisly murder;
- ghastly wounds;
- gruesome evidence of human sacrifice;
- macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages;
- macabre tortures conceived by madmen;
- the grim aftermath of the bombing;
- the grim task of burying the victims
Meaning (5):
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- filled with melancholy and despondency
Example in sentence:
- a dispirited and resigned expression on her face;
- a gloomy silence;
- depressed by the loss of his job;
- downcast after his defeat;
- feeling discouraged and downhearted;
- gloomy at the thought of what he had to face;
- gloomy predictions;
- lonely and blue in a strange city;
- the darkening mood;
- took a grim view of the economy
Meaning (6):
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
Example in sentence:
- grim determination;
- grim necessity;
- relentless persecution;
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty;
- the stern demands of parenthood
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