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Meaning of grim
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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: {grim}, {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}, {grim}, {grisly}, {gruesome}, {macabre}, {sick}]
3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
"grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to
savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {grim}, {mordant}]
4: 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}, {grim}]
5: filled with melancholy and despondency ; "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" [syn:
{gloomy}, {grim}, {blue}, {depressed}, {dispirited},
{down(p)}, {downcast}, {downhearted}, {down in the mouth},
{low}, {low-spirited}]
6: 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}, {dingy}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {gloomy}, {grim},
{sorry}, {drab}, {drear}, {dreary}]
WordNet ® Princeton University. http://wordnet.princeton.edu
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