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grim adjective
Meaning : Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty.
Example :
Grim determination.
Grim necessity.
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty.
Relentless persecution.
The stern demands of parenthood.
Synonyms : inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
Meaning : Shockingly repellent. Inspiring horror.
Example :
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.
Meaning : Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance.
Example :
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.
Synonyms : dour, forbidding
Meaning : Filled with melancholy and despondency.
Example :
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.
Synonyms : blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low, low-spirited
Meaning : Causing dejection.
Example :
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.
Synonyms : blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry
