Grim
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English
Adjective
Grim (comparative grimmer, superlative grimmest)
- dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
- It was grim in the northern industrial town
- rigid and unrelenting
- His grim determination enabled him to win
- ghastly or sinister
- The grim castle overshadowed the village
Adverbs for Grim
horribly; terribly; cruelly; bitterly; unutterably; unaccountably; unwarrantably; acutely; austerely; brutally; cynically; morosely; perversely; discourteously; sullenly; unceremoniously; impolitely; horridly; sternly; severely; depressingly; oppressively; heavily; forlornly; frightfully; irredeemably.
Synonyms for Grim
sullen, stern, austere, severe, sour, threatening, repellent, dour, terrifying, forbidding, macabre, cranky, rigid, rigorous, gloomy, ugly, desperate, resolute, intractable, sulky, cross, glum, morose, inflexible, serious, ghastly, ruthless, gruesome, sinister, threatening.
Antonyms for Grim
pleasant, mild, bland, smiling, laughing, gay, blithe, merry, suave, calm, agreeable, charming, winning, winsome, attractive, engaging, amiable, cordial, cheerful, buoyant, light-hearted, enlivening, soothing, debonair, sunny, serene, jovial, gleeful, inspiriting, mirthful, jocose.
Thesaurus
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
Etymology
From Old English grim.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪm
Translations
- The translations below need to be checked.
Danish
Adjective
Grim (neuter grimt, definite and plural grimme, comparative grimmere, superlative grimmest)
Old English
Etymology
From Germanic *grimmaz, from Indo-European *ghrem- ‘to thunder’. Cognate with Old Saxon grim, Old High German grim (German grimm), Old Norse grimmr (Danish grim), Swedish grym; and with Greek χρεμίζω, Old Church Slavonic грьмѣти (Russian греметь), Latvian gremt. Perhaps related in Old Norse to veiled or hooded, Grim is also an alternate name for Odin, who often went around disguised, compare the hooded appearance of The Grim Reaper.
Pronunciation
Adjective
grim
