| grim [a] |
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| 1) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting |
| See Also:
| implacable |
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| 2) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | ghastly grisly gruesome macabre |
| See Also:
| alarming |
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| 3) | harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" |
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| Synonyms : | black mordant |
| See Also:
| sarcastic |
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| 4) | 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" |
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| Synonyms : | blue dark depressing disconsolate dismal dispiriting gloomy |
| See Also:
| cheerless |
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| 5) | 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 |
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| Synonyms : | dour forbidding |
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| unpleasant |
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| 6) | characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "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" |
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| Synonyms : | darkening gloomy |
| See Also:
| hopeless |
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