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Meaning of 'grim' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Grim [ Compar.]
- Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Meaning of 'grim' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . grim [ s]
Meaning (1):
- 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):
- 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 (3):
- 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 (4):
- harshly ironic or sinister
Example in sentence:
  • a grim joke;
  • black humor;
  • fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit;
  • grim laughter
Meaning (5):
- 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 (6):
- 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

Nearby Words:

gribble grice grid griddle griddlecake gride grided gridelin griding gridiron

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