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The synonyms of “Grim” are: dour, forbidding, blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, low, low-spirited, black, mordant, uninviting, unapproachable, aloof, distant, dreadful, dire, horrible, horrendous, horrid, terrible, awful, appalling, frightful, shocking, unspeakable, atrocious, harrowing, mirthless, bleak, cynical, fatalistic, wretched, miserable, disheartening, depressing, cheerless, comfortless, joyless, sombre, merciless, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, savage, vicious, brutal, harsh, severe
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “grim” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
| aloof | Remote in manner. They were courteous but faintly aloof. |
| appalling | Causing shock or dismay; horrific. Appalling conditions. |
| atrocious | Horrifyingly wicked. Atrocious cruelties. |
| awful | Used to emphasize the extent of something, especially something unpleasant or negative. You look awful you should go and lie down. |
| black | Relating to black people. The entire cast is black. |
| bleak | (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favourable outcome. A bleak midwinter s day. |
| blue | Of a ski run of the second lowest level of difficulty as indicated by blue markers positioned along it. Blue jokes. |
| brutal | Disagreeably direct and precise. The brutal honesty of his observations. |
| cheerless | Gloomy; depressing. Something cheerless about the room. |
| comfortless | Having or offering nothing that serves to ease feelings or grief or distress. A comfortless room. |
| cruel | Causing pain or suffering. People who are cruel to animals. |
| cynical | Believing that people are motivated purely by self-interest; distrustful of human sincerity or integrity. Her cynical attitude. |
| dark | Of a person having dark skin hair or eyes. Dark as the inside of a black cat. |
| depressed | Filled with melancholy and despondency. Depressed by the loss of his job. |
| depressing | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The economic outlook is depressing. |
| dingy | Gloomy and drab. A dingy room. |
| dire | Fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless- G.C.Marshall. Dire news. |
| disconsolate | Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled. She left Fritz looking disconsolate. |
| disheartening | Causing someone to lose determination or confidence; discouraging or dispiriting. Her death is particularly disheartening because it was preventable. |
| dismal | Causing dejection. The first dismal dispiriting days of November. |
| dispirited | Having lost enthusiasm and hope; disheartened. She was determined to appear unworried in front of her dispirited family. |
| distant | Remote or far apart in resemblance or relationship. A distant cousin of the King. |
| dour | Showing a brooding ill humor. A dour self sacrificing life. |
| down | Denoting a flavour variety of stable quark having relatively low mass and an electric charge of 1 3 In the Standard Model protons and neutrons are composed of up and down quarks. You going to the movies Yo I m down. |
| down in the mouth | Extending or moving from a higher to a lower place. |
| downcast | Directed downward. Her modestly downcast eyes. |
| downhearted | Discouraged; in low spirits. Feeling discouraged and downhearted. |
| drab | Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. Her drab suburban existence. |
| dreadful | Very unpleasant. A dreadful storm. |
| drear | Causing dejection. |
| dreary | Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. A series of dreary dinner parties. |
| fatalistic | Relating to or characteristic of the belief that all events are predetermined and therefore inevitable. He gives a fatalistic shrug at the bleak future. |
| forbidding | Threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments. A grim and forbidding building. |
| frightful | Provoking horror- Winston Churchill. A frightful crime of decapitation. |
| ghastly | Gruesomely indicative of death or the dead. One of the most ghastly crimes ever committed. |
| gloomy | Filled with melancholy and despondency. A dark gloomy day. |
| grisly | Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. The town was shaken by a series of grisly crimes. |
| gruesome | Extremely unpleasant. The most gruesome murder. |
| harrowing | Acutely distressing. It was a harrowing experience. |
| harsh | Severe. The harsh white light makes you screw up your eyes. |
| horrendous | Causing fear or dread or terror. She suffered horrendous injuries. |
| horrible | Very unpleasant. A horrible massacre. |
| horrid | Grossly offensive to decency or morality; causing horror. When she was bad she was horrid. |
| inexorable | Impossible to stop or prevent. The seemingly inexorable march of new technology. |
| joyless | Not experiencing or inspiring joy. A joyless occasion. |
| low | Below average in amount extent or intensity. A low bow. |
| low-spirited | Filled with melancholy and despondency. |
| macabre | Disturbing because concerned with or causing a fear of death. A macabre series of murders. |
| merciless | Showing no mercy. A merciless critic. |
| mirthless | Lacking mirth. He gave a short mirthless laugh. |
| miserable | Pitiably small or inadequate. Miserable victims of war. |
| mordant | Of a substance, especially a strong acid; capable of destroying or eating away by chemical action. A mordant sense of humour. |
| pitiless | (especially of weather) unrelentingly harsh or severe. A night of pitiless rain. |
| relentless | Unceasingly intense. A patient but relentless taskmaster. |
| ruthless | Having or showing no pity or compassion for others. An act of ruthless ferocity. |
| savage | Cruel and vicious; aggressively hostile. The decision was a savage blow for the town. |
| severe | Severely simple. A severe test of stamina. |
| shocking | Very bad. I ve got a shocking cold. |
| sick | Intensely annoyed with or bored by (someone or something) as a result of having had too much of them. Gossip that makes one sick. |
| sombre | Dark or dull in colour or tone. The night skies were sombre and starless. |
| sorry | Without merit; of little or no value or use. I m sorry you were saying. |
| stern | Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor forbidding in aspect. The stern demands of parenthood. |
| terrible | Exceptionally bad or displeasing. A terrible crime. |
| unappeasable | Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty. What began as an aspiration turned soon to an unappeasable hunger. |
| unapproachable | Discouraging intimacies; reserved. An unapproachable executive. |
| unforgiving | Unwilling or unable to forgive or show mercy. He was always a proud and unforgiving man. |
| uninviting | Not tempting. The house was dark and uninviting. |
| unrelenting | Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty. Unrelenting opponents. |
| unspeakable | Too sacred to be uttered. I felt an unspeakable tenderness towards her. |
| vicious | Bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure. The dog was vicious and likely to bite. |
| wretched | (of a person) in a very unhappy or unfortunate state. The wretched conditions of the slums. |
| blue | Blue colour or pigment. Blued paper. |
| cheerless | Gloomy; depressing. The corridors were ill lit and cheerless. |
| contemplative | A person devoted to the contemplative life. Contemplative knowledge of God. |
| dejected | Sad and depressed; dispirited. Is dejected but trying to look cheerful. |
| depressed | (of a place or economic activity) suffering the damaging effects of a lack of demand or employment. A depressed fracture of the skull. |
| depression | A period during the 1930s when there was a worldwide economic depression and mass unemployment. Depression of the space bar on the typewriter. |
| despair | The complete loss or absence of hope. She despaired of finding a good restaurant nearby. |
| despondent | In low spirits from loss of hope or courage. Despondent about his failure. |
| dingy | Causing dejection. A dirty or dingy white. |
| disconsolate | Sad beyond comforting; incapable of being consoled. A disconsolate winter landscape. |
| dismal | (of a person or their mood) gloomy. His dismal mood was not dispelled by finding the house empty. |
| dour | Stubbornly unyielding. A hard dour humourless fanatic. |
| downcast | A ventilation shaft through which air enters a mine. Downcast after his defeat. |
| drab | Clothes especially trousers made of drab. Drab camouflage uniforms. |
| dreary | Lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise. A series of dreary dinner parties. |
| gloom | Be or look depressed or despondent. His gloom deepened. |
| gloomy | Filled with melancholy and despondency. Gloomy at the thought of what he had to face. |
| heartsick | Full of sorrow. Too heartsick to fight back. |
| melancholy | A humor that was once believed to be secreted by the kidneys or spleen and to cause sadness and melancholy. We acquainted him with the melancholy truth. |
| mourning | The expression of sorrow for someone’s death. She s still in mourning after the death of her husband. |
| pensive | Showing pensive sadness. A pensive mood. |
| sad | Of things that make you feel sad Christina Rossetti. He told her the sad story of his life. |
| sadness | The state of being sad. It is one of life s sadnesses. |
| somber | Grave or even gloomy in character. Children in somber brown clothes. |
| sorrowful | Causing grief. A sorrowful tale of death and despair. |
| sorry | Causing dejection. A sorry excuse. |
| stern | Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor forbidding in aspect. A stern disciplinarian. |
| sullen | A sulky or depressed mood. A sullen sunless sky. |
| unhappy | Not satisfied or pleased with (a situation. Unhappy with her raise. |
| wistful | Showing pensive sadness. A wistful smile. |
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