Define the word grim"Grim" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Grim \Grim\ (gr[i^]m), a. [Compar. Grimmer (-m[~e]r); superl.
Grimmest (-m[e^]st).] [AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv.
to G. & D. grimmig, Dan. grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr,
G. gram grief, as adj., hostile; cf. Gr. ?, a crushing sound,
? to neigh.]
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
cruel; frightful; horrible.
[1913 Webster]
Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]
The ridges of grim war. --Milton.
Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
sour.
[1913 Webster]
"grim" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
grim
adj 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" [syn: inexorable, relentless,
stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
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" [syn: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre]
3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
"grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...
to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, mordant]
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" [syn:
blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting,
gloomy]
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 [syn:
dour, forbidding]
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" [syn: gloomy, darkening]
[also: grimmest, grimmer]
"grim" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
293 Moby Thesaurus words for "grim":
Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, affording no hope,
alarming, anguished, anxious, apathetic, appalling, astounding,
astringent, atrocious, austere, authoritarian, awe-inspiring,
awesome, awful, baneful, barbarous, barfy, beastly, beetle-browed,
black, black-browed, bleak, bloodthirsty, bored, brutal, brutish,
bum, cast-iron, certain, cheerless, cheesy, cold, comfortless,
crappy, creepy, cruel, crummy, dark, dead set, decided, decorous,
dejected, demanding, demure, depressed, despairing, desperate,
despondent, determined, dire, direful, dirty, disconsolate,
discontented, disgusted, dismal, dogged, dour, dread, dreaded,
dreadful, drear, drearisome, dreary, dumpish, earnest, eerie, evil,
evil-favored, evil-looking, exacting, exigent, fell, feral,
ferocious, fiendish, fierce, firm, fixed, flagitious, flinty,
forbidding, foreboding, forlorn, formal, formidable, frightening,
frightful, frowning, funebrial, funereal, ghastly, ghoulish,
gloomy, glowering, glum, godawful, goshawful, grave, gray,
grim-faced, grim-visaged, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, grum, hairy,
hard, hard-core, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard-visaged,
harrowing, harsh, headstrong, heartless, heinous, hideous,
homicidal, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
horrifying, humorless, icky, ill-favored, ill-featured,
ill-looking, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable,
in bad humor, in despair, inclement, inelastic, inevitable,
inexorable, infestive, inflexible, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous,
intractable, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, joyless,
loathsome, long-faced, lowering, lurid, macabre, melancholy,
merciless, meticulous, mirthless, miserable, monstrous, moodish,
moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morbid, morose, mortal, mumpish,
murderous, nauseated, nauseous, obdurate, obstinate, offensive,
ominous, out of humor, out of sorts, pitiless, pleasureless,
prey to malaise, punk, putrid, redoubtable, relentless, repelled,
repugnant, repulsive, resolute, revolted, revolting, rigid,
rigorous, rock-ribbed, rotten, rough, rugged, ruthless, sad,
saturnine, savage, schrecklich, scowling, sedate, serious, set,
severe, shitty, shocking, sickened, sinister, sober, sober-minded,
sobersided, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorry, sorryish, staid,
steadfast, steely, stern, stiff, stinking, stinky, stone-faced,
stony, straight-faced, strict, stringent, stubborn,
suffering angst, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, terrific,
terrifying, thoughtful, tough, tragic, tremendous, triste,
truculent, unaffected, unalterable, unappeasable, unbending,
unchangeable, uncheerful, uncheery, uncompromising, uneasy,
unflinching, unforgiving, unfulfilled, ungentle, ungiving,
ungratified, unhappy, unhopeful, unjoyful, unmirthful, unmoved,
unmoving, unprepossessing, unquiet, unrelenting, unsatisfied,
unsmiling, unsparing, unspeakable, unwavering, unyielding, vicious,
vindictive, violent, vomity, weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty,
wicked, without hope, wolfish, wretched, yecchy
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