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Grim

adjective

(compar. grimmer; superl. grimmest)

1.

Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty. Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting. "Grim necessity" , "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty" , "Relentless persecution" , "The stern demands of parenthood"

2.

Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick. "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. Synonyms: black, mordant. "A grim joke" , "Grim laughter" , "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

4.

Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance. Synonyms: dour, forbidding. "A forbidding scowl" , "A grim man loving duty more than humanity" , "Undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"

5.

Filled with melancholy and despondency. Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low, low-spirited. "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. Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry. "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"

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"Grim" Quotes from Famous Books

... knowing that the enemy is massing his forces elsewhere on the long front, but this trick of rapid change is becoming harder to perform, and more exhausting. At any rate, the plain poilus in the front trenches are instinctively sure: "We'll have 'em now soon!" They have watched that grim gray wall opposite so long that, like animals, they can feel what is going on there ...

— The World Decision • Robert Herrick

... are surprised at hearing one like me speak in this way,—one who has all her life been admired and flattered,—I, Diana de Laurebourg, Countess de Mussidan. Even in the hours of my greatest triumphs my soul shuddered at the thought of the grim spectre hidden away in the past; and I wished that death would come and relieve my sufferings. My eccentricities have often surprised my friends, who asked if sometimes I were not a little mad. Mad? Yes, I am mad! They do not know that I seek oblivion in excitement, and that ...

— Caught In The Net • Emile Gaboriau

... depends, monsieur, on what is thought horrible! A good many of my pensioners have been dangerous customers in their time—but now? Fortunately, monsieur, the dead cannot bite!" and he smiled at his own grim joke. ...

— The End of Her Honeymoon • Marie Belloc Lowndes

... fearfully desiring to have his own courage tested—a more common boy-wish than might be supposed. He thought of it as he laid down the book and began to inspect again the painted buffalo skins on the wall, letting his imagination wander when once more he touched a Sioux tomahawk with its grim adornment of scalp-locks. He was far away when he heard his aunt say, "You were not out long, John. Did ...

— Westways • S. Weir Mitchell

... Charcot, indeed, it is said, used to declare that the only anaphrodisiac in which he had any confidence was that used by the uncle of Heloise in the case of Abelard. "Cela (he would add with a grim smile) ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

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