grim English

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What does grim mean?

Definitions in simple English

grim Adjective

— If you are grim you are very serious, and might be thinking about bad things like loss, sadness, or death. I was in a grim mood after my grandmother died.

grim

— adjective (= inexorable, relentless, stern) 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

— adjective (= ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre) 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

— adjective (= black, mordant) harshly ironic or sinister black humor a grim joke grim laughter fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit

— adjective (= dour, forbidding) 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

— adjective (= gloomy, blue, depressed, dispirited, downcast, downhearted) 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

— adjective (= blue, dark, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy) 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

Synonyms grim synonyms

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grim English » English

stern

gloomy

dismal

fierce

cruel

serious

blue

bleak

gruesome

disconsolate

dark

brutal

unkind

merciless

macabre

grisly

ghastly

drab

atrocious

unrelenting

sullen

sick

inhuman

inexorable

incisive

harsh

forbidding

dreary

drear

bloodthirsty

black

barbarous

barbarian

unforgiving

unappeasable

stark

sorry

somber

solemn

relentless

nasty

mordant

low-spirited

low

humorless

heartless

grave

ghoulish

downhearted

downcast

Topics grim topics

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Social behavior Law Justice

Act harshly

• What words refer to acting harshly?
  act harshly abrasive abrupt acrid acrimonious brute bully caustic cruel cruelty demanding exacting forceful grate grim hard harsh martial law pugnacious rigid rough severe sharp stern stiff stinging strict stringent tough unfavorable unfeeling ungentle violent

Person Life

Die

• What euphemisms and idioms are used to refer to death?
  go to your reward be wasted fall asleep croak depart breathe your last defunct grim reaper

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Simple sentences

From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.

That evening tea was partaken of in a grim silence.

The firemen's face was grim when he came out of the burning house.

In this line of work, if you make a grim face the customers won't come.

Don't look so grim.

Tom had the grim task of identifying Mary's body.

It's a grim world.

Tom is grim.

The sky was already looking grim when we set sail. Within an hour, the first squall had hit us.

Movie subtitles

So grim reapers die as well?

Did Grim Reapers appear?

The one that Arang Agassi. the Grim Reaper?

Even as we met as a Grim Reaper and Heaven's Fairy, I loved him just like before.

And, given the grim circumstances of Patsy's death, it's hardly surprising.

Here you'll get a taste of our grim reality.

I was telling her some rather grim tales. of my far-off country.

Anton Hooter, Sharpshooter, when he screams for liquor and the devil gets into him the results are pretty grim.

Bit grim, isn't it?

Gentlemen, in the whole course of my life, I've never encountered anything so grim.

I always think that's such a grim word.

I know exactly how you feel, my dear. The morning after always does look grim. if you happen to be wearing last night's dress.

You could see that she was just holding onto herself like grim death.

The war has made it grim.

But if, on a glorious day, in a bed of the loveliest flowers, you were to find a grim monster which put you in a bad mood?

A bit grim, isn't it?

Grim enough, I suppose.

Then you are a spy. -l think that is such a grim word.

The morning after always does look grim. if you happen to be wearing last night's dress.

Bert, it's a very nice sentiment, but isn't it a bit grim towards the end?

Please try to relax your grim disapproval with this doctor.

So we can look forward with greater confidence to the grim.

Greater confidence to the grim months ahead.

It's a grim old pile, very spooky.

Could it be. The one that Arang Agassi. the Grim Reaper?

Ilovedmy Brother. Even as we met as a Grim Reaper and Heaven's Fairy, I loved him just like before.

Its grim tragedy seems to fascinate everyone.

It's much too grim and earnest.

It must be cheerful while all stations are grim.

Isn't he grim?

Then don't look so grim.

Death is no longer a grim reaper, a shadow behind my back, but part of the life and of its waves.

He had such a grim, businesslike face, but fortunately I was wearing my last pair of silk stockings.

Later I found out Max was the only other person in that grim castle.

I prefer to think of it as a grim reminder.

News and current affairs

Indeed, it was this dynamic - against which John Maynard Keynes fought - that made the Great Depression of the 1930's so grim.

The Republic of Korea, which is losing jobs for the first time in more than five years, has also spotted the green lining to grim economic times.

Not surprisingly, the atmosphere at this year's World Economic Forum was grim.

To generate the political will that such reforms require, we must confront policymakers' inertia and inaction with the grim facts of inequality and its devastating effects on our children.

Politkovskaya's murder is a particularly grim augury when you consider that she was a powerful critic of Russia's President.

The attack on the South Korean naval ship Cheonan earlier this year may be a grim sign of things to come.

The new year is looking grim.

But growth prospects remain grim.

Though triggered by the need to devise an exit strategy from the Iraqi quagmire, the Iraq Study Group's grim report is a devastating indictment of the Bush administration's entire foreign policy.

Consider the grim statistics recently released by the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP).

In good times, we probably would not be able to tell the difference, but the grim reality is that such an arrangement would be unlikely to prevent another crisis.

In the centuries since then, the situation has become ever more grim.

On the contrary, the root cause of the Eastern European attitudes now on grim display is to be found in World War II and its aftermath.

But if Muhammad al-Ghuneim does indeed become the new leader, the prospects for any peace at all look grim.

The fact that a former president of Serbia, Ivan Stambolic, could disappear without a trace in 1999 is grim testimony to the power of Serbia's criminal underworld.

Consider, for example, Colombia's grim ranking as global leader in the number of victims injured by landmines.

So, for example, journalists stress the rather pathetic high note of a grim reality: at least there are not more massacres and murders, and the numbers are stable.

NEW YORK - The worst crisis of capitalism since the Great Depression of the 1930's has reawakened grim memories on both sides of the Atlantic.

Indeed, the record of Internet companies in authoritarian countries is both consistent and grim.

In grim detail, his letter described the bloody mayhem that the slaughter brought to his hospital and the hysteria of ordinary people as they arrived to find children and loved ones dead.

The Mekong incident tells another grim story.

Indeed, the uncertainty about whether two of APEC's key leaders will even speak to each other highlights the grim reality of Asian international relations today.

Moreover, in the current grim economic conditions across Europe, voters who do turn out are all too likely to take the opportunity to punish the major parties and vote for fringe and even extremist politicians.

They gathered momentum after a summer of labor strikes, when Poland's communist chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, concluded that the country's economic troubles were too grim to face alone.

But, while Cameron should know from grim experience what is looming, it seems that he has abandoned rational considerations.