grim, adj.
(grimmer, grimmest)
freq. cnt. 19
(grimmer, grimmest)
freq. cnt. 19
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 13 freq. cnt.: 8 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
grim inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting
sample sentences
"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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shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 12 freq. cnt.: 7 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 2 freq. cnt.: 1
ghastly grim grisly gruesome macabre sick
sample sentences
"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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harshly ironic or sinister
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 3 freq. cnt.: 3
black grim mordant
sample sentences
"black humor""a grim joke"
"grim laughter"
"fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
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harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
<adj.all> freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
dour forbidding grim
sample sentences
"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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causing dejection
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blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy grim sorry
sample sentences
"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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filled with melancholy and despondency
<adj.all> (p) freq. cnt.: 1 freq. cnt.: 1
blue depressed dispirited down down in the mouth downcast downhearted gloomy grim low low-spirited
sample sentences
"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"
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