What is another word for grim?
1534 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ ɡɹˈɪm], [ ɡɹˈɪm], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈɪ_m]
Grim is a popular word used to describe something that is very serious, terrible or gloomy. There are many synonyms that can replace the word "grim" and still convey the same meaning. These include bleak, severe, stark, austere, harsh, hard, dour, distressing, morose, dismal, and somber. Each of these words can be used interchangeably in sentences that describe bleak situations or circumstances that are unwelcoming, distressing, or unpleasant. They can also be used to describe facial expressions that are lifeless and without expression. Overall, the synonyms for "grim" are useful for painting a picture of a difficult or unpleasant situation in any context.
Synonyms for Grim:
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adj.
• deathly • dejected- anxious ,
- blue ,
- contemplative ,
- dejected ,
- despairing ,
- despondent ,
- disconsolate ,
- discouraged ,
- disheartened ,
- dispirited ,
- dolorous ,
- downhearted ,
- dreary ,
- gloomy ,
- glum ,
- heartbroken ,
- joyless ,
- lachrymose ,
- miserable ,
- moody ,
- morose ,
- mournful ,
- overcome ,
- pensive ,
- plaintive ,
- sad ,
- sullen ,
- wistful .
- bummed out ,
- cast down ,
- cast-down ,
- down and out ,
- down in dumps ,
- down in mouth ,
- down in the dumps ,
- in pain ,
- in the pits ,
- in the toilet ,
- lowdown ,
- on a downer ,
- torn up ,
- in a blue funk ,
- taken down .
- demure ,
- dignified ,
- earnest ,
- intense ,
- no joke ,
- no laughing matter ,
- of consequence ,
- out for blood ,
- sedate ,
- smoking ,
- sober ,
- sobering ,
- solemn ,
- somber ,
- unamusing ,
- unhumorous ,
- Operose ,
- playing hard ball .
- abrupt ,
- acerbic ,
- acrimonious ,
- acute ,
- ascetic ,
- astringent ,
- authoritarian ,
- basic ,
- blunt ,
- brisk ,
- brusque ,
- caustic ,
- censorious ,
- chilly ,
- cool ,
- correct ,
- crisp ,
- critical ,
- curt ,
- cutting ,
- demanding ,
- disciplined ,
- dour ,
- draconian ,
- dry ,
- exacting ,
- frosty ,
- fundamental ,
- gruff ,
- hidebound ,
- icy ,
- imperial ,
- inflexible ,
- intolerant ,
- iron-handed ,
- ironhanded ,
- keen ,
- lean ,
- meticulous ,
- obdurate ,
- obstinate ,
- oppressive ,
- piquant ,
- precise ,
- prudish ,
- puritanical ,
- raw ,
- rigid ,
- rigorous ,
- severe ,
- sharp ,
- short ,
- spare ,
- spartan ,
- stern ,
- strait-laced ,
- stringent ,
- tart ,
- unbending ,
- uncompromising ,
- effortful .
- grim .
- Ender ,
- dis heartening ,
- dis maying ,
- dis-heartening ,
- dis-maying ,
- endest ,
- more daunting ,
- more disheartening ,
- more dismaying ,
- more petrifying ,
- more scaring ,
- more unnerving ,
- most daunting ,
- most disheartening ,
- most dismaying ,
- most petrifying ,
- most scaring ,
- most unnerving ,
- un nerving ,
- un-nerving .
- de forested ,
- de sert ,
- de solate ,
- de-forested ,
- de-sert ,
- de-solate ,
- drearer ,
- drearest ,
- ex posed ,
- ex-posed ,
- more blighted ,
- more bulldozed ,
- more deforested ,
- more scorched ,
- more unpopulated ,
- more unpromising ,
- more windswept ,
- most blighted ,
- most bulldozed ,
- most deforested ,
- most scorched ,
- most unpopulated ,
- most unpromising ,
- most windswept ,
- stripped ,
- un populated ,
- un promising ,
- un sheltered ,
- un-populated ,
- un-promising ,
- un-sheltered ,
- weather beaten .
- draggier ,
- draggiest ,
- in dumps ,
- in the dumps ,
- jarring ,
- mopier ,
- mopiest ,
- more dejecting ,
- more drearisome ,
- most dejecting ,
- most drearisome ,
- tenebrific ,
- un comfortable ,
- un-comfortable .
- de stroying ,
- de-stroying ,
- death dealing ,
- deathdealing ,
- killing ,
- more carcinogenic ,
- more death dealing ,
- more death-dealing ,
- more deathdealing ,
- more destroying ,
- more killing ,
- more mortiferous ,
- more pestilent ,
- more slaying ,
- most carcinogenic ,
- most death dealing ,
- most death-dealing ,
- most deathdealing ,
- most destroying ,
- most killing ,
- most mortiferous ,
- most slaying .
- de pressing ,
- de-pressing ,
- more oppressing ,
- more scowling ,
- most oppressing ,
- most scowling ,
- portentous ,
- re doubtable ,
- re-doubtable ,
- ruinous .
- feller ,
- fellest ,
- more brutish ,
- more ravening ,
- more tigerish ,
- more wolfish ,
- most brutish ,
- most ravening ,
- most tigerish ,
- most wolfish ,
- un merciful ,
- un tamed ,
- un-merciful ,
- un-restrained ,
- un-tamed .
- fore boding ,
- fore-boding ,
- more foreboding ,
- more glowering ,
- more off putting ,
- more off-putting ,
- more offputting ,
- most foreboding ,
- most glowering ,
- most off putting ,
- most off-putting ,
- most offputting ,
- off putting ,
- offputting ,
- un approachable ,
- un friendlier ,
- un friendliest ,
- un-approachable ,
- un-friendlier ,
- un-friendliest ,
- un-friendly ,
- unapproachable .
- dis quieting ,
- dis-quieting ,
- in conceivable ,
- in-conceivable ,
- more grabber ,
- more traumatic ,
- most grabber ,
- most traumatic .
- like a bag bones ,
- like bag bones ,
- like bag of bones ,
- more attenuated ,
- more pinched ,
- more skeleton ,
- most attenuated ,
- most pinched ,
- most skeleton ,
- peakier ,
- peakiest ,
- scraggier ,
- skin bones .
- more mortuary ,
- more wraithlike ,
- most mortuary ,
- most wraithlike ,
- super natural ,
- super-natural ,
- un cannier ,
- un canniest ,
- un canny ,
- un-cannier ,
- un-canniest ,
- un-canny ,
- un-natural .
- de monic ,
- de-monic ,
- more spine chilling ,
- more spine-chilling ,
- more spinechilling ,
- most spine chilling ,
- most spine-chilling ,
- most spinechilling ,
- spine chilling ,
- spinechilling .
- grim faced ,
- grimfaced ,
- long faced ,
- longfaced ,
- more grim faced ,
- more grim-faced ,
- more grimfaced ,
- more long faced ,
- more long-faced ,
- more longfaced ,
- more muted ,
- more unsmiling ,
- most grim faced ,
- most grim-faced ,
- most grimfaced ,
- most long faced ,
- most long-faced ,
- most longfaced ,
- most muted ,
- most unsmiling ,
- nononsense ,
- ponderous ,
- un smiling ,
- un-smiling .
- dis agreeing ,
- dis courteous ,
- dis sonant ,
- dis-agreeing ,
- dis-courteous ,
- dis-sonant ,
- hard nosed ,
- hard-nosed ,
- hardshell ,
- in compatible ,
- in-compatible ,
- more asperous ,
- more caterwauling ,
- more clashing ,
- more creaking ,
- more cussed ,
- more hard nosed ,
- more jangling ,
- more out of key ,
- more out of tune ,
- more out-of-key ,
- more out-of-tune ,
- more screeching ,
- more stridulous ,
- more tuneless ,
- more unlevel ,
- more unmelodious ,
- most asperous ,
- most caterwauling ,
- most clashing ,
- most creaking ,
- most cussed ,
- most jangling ,
- most out of key ,
- most out of tune ,
- most out-of-key ,
- most out-of-tune ,
- most screeching ,
- most stridulous ,
- most tuneless ,
- most unlevel ,
- most unmelodious ,
- off key ,
- offkey ,
- out of key ,
- un civil ,
- un even ,
- un gracious ,
- un level ,
- un melodious ,
- un musical ,
- un-civil ,
- un-even ,
- un-gracious ,
- un-level ,
- un-melodious ,
- un-musical .
- de testable ,
- de-testable ,
- more beast ,
- most beast ,
- un comely ,
- un sightlier ,
- un sightliest ,
- un sightly ,
- un-comely ,
- un-sightlier ,
- un-sightliest ,
- un-sightly .
- scarier ,
- un godlier ,
- un godliest ,
- un godly ,
- un holier ,
- un holiest ,
- un holy ,
- un-godlier ,
- un-godliest ,
- un-godly ,
- un-holier ,
- un-holiest ,
- un-holy ,
- unholy .
- more ironfisted ,
- most ironfisted ,
- un appeasable ,
- un bending ,
- un compromising ,
- un flinching ,
- un yielding ,
- un-appeasable ,
- un-bending ,
- un-compromising ,
- un-flinching ,
- un-yielding .
- in compliant ,
- in subordinate ,
- in-compliant ,
- in-subordinate ,
- more brassbound ,
- more self willed ,
- more self-willed ,
- most brassbound ,
- most self willed ,
- most self-willed ,
- most selfwilled ,
- muler ,
- mulest ,
- self willed ,
- set in one ways ,
- set in ones ways ,
- set in ways ,
- set one ways ,
- set one's ways ,
- set ones ways ,
- set ways ,
- un manageable ,
- un reasonable ,
- un-manageable ,
- un-reasonable ,
- un-shakable .
- dog eat dog ,
- having killer instinct ,
- iron fisted ,
- more iron fisted ,
- more iron-fisted ,
- most iron fisted ,
- most iron-fisted ,
- un pitying ,
- un-pitying ,
- uncalledfor .
- Ill-boding ,
- ill boding ,
- ill fated ,
- illboding ,
- illfated ,
- in auspicious ,
- in hospitable ,
- in-auspicious ,
- in-hospitable ,
- inauspicious ,
- more doomful ,
- more malefic ,
- more malificent ,
- more precursive ,
- more premonitory ,
- more presaging ,
- most doomful ,
- most malefic ,
- most malificent ,
- most precursive ,
- most premonitory ,
- most presaging ,
- pre cursive ,
- pre monitory ,
- pre-cursive ,
- pre-monitory ,
- un luckier ,
- un luckiest ,
- un lucky ,
- un propitious ,
- un-luckier ,
- un-luckiest ,
- un-lucky .
- bound determined ,
- hangtough ,
- more hang tough ,
- more hang-tough ,
- more hangtough ,
- more undeviating ,
- more unstoppable ,
- most hang tough ,
- most hang-tough ,
- most hangtough ,
- most undeviating ,
- most unstoppable ,
- single minded ,
- stop at nothing ,
- stop nothing ,
- un deviating ,
- un stoppable ,
- un-deviating ,
- un-stoppable ,
- unstoppable .
- hard bitten ,
- hard hearted ,
- in sensitive ,
- in tolerant ,
- in-sensitive ,
- more hard hearted ,
- more hard-hearted ,
- more uncontrite ,
- more unregenerate ,
- more unrepenting ,
- most hard hearted ,
- most hard-hearted ,
- most uncontrite ,
- most unregenerate ,
- most unrepenting ,
- un contrite ,
- un regenerate ,
- un remitting ,
- un repenting ,
- un-contrite ,
- un-remitting ,
- un-repenting .
- more unclothed ,
- more undraped ,
- most unclothed ,
- most undraped ,
- un clad ,
- un clothed ,
- un covered ,
- un draped ,
- un-clad ,
- un-clothed ,
- un-draped .
- by book ,
- dyed in the wool ,
- hardheaded ,
- hardline ,
- more mortified ,
- more stiff necked ,
- more stiff-necked ,
- more stiffnecked ,
- most hardheaded ,
- most mortified ,
- most stiff necked ,
- most stiff-necked ,
- most stiffnecked ,
- steelier ,
- steeliest ,
- stiff necked ,
- stiffnecked .
- more stickling ,
- more unpermissive ,
- most stickling ,
- most unpermissive ,
- un permissive ,
- un-permissive ,
- unpermissive ,
- up tight ,
- up-tight .
- Moping ,
- beetle-browed ,
- broody ,
- contrary ,
- crabby ,
- cross ,
- cynical ,
- dark ,
- dissociable ,
- fretful ,
- hostile ,
- irascible ,
- malevolent ,
- mean ,
- noncooperative ,
- petulant ,
- uncooperative ,
- unfriendly ,
- ungenial ,
- unsociable .
- heart rending ,
- ill starred ,
- illstarred ,
- more anguished ,
- more crushing ,
- more heart rending ,
- more heart-rending ,
- most anguished ,
- most crushing ,
- most heart rending ,
- most heart-rending .
- heavy hearted ,
- more let down ,
- more let-down ,
- more letdown ,
- most let down ,
- most let-down ,
- most letdown ,
- un happier ,
- un happiest ,
- un happy ,
- un-happier ,
- un-happiest ,
- un-happy .
Other synonyms:
- Charmless ,
- Incompliant ,
- Minging ,
- brassbound ,
- chi-chi ,
- fierce ,
- hulking ,
- plug-ugly ,
- twee ,
- unappealing ,
- unbendable ,
- uncompliant ,
- unflattering ,
- unlovable ,
- unlovely ,
- unprepossessing ,
- unsightly ,
- yucky .
- die-hard ,
- graceless ,
- grotesque ,
- homely ,
- lurid ,
- monstrous ,
- ruthless ,
- severely ,
- sexless ,
- showy ,
- sordid ,
- stubborn ,
- unattractive ,
- unbecoming .
- plain .
- look at .
Other relevant words:
- A ,
- Black-browed ,
- Black-hearted ,
- Cruel-hearted ,
- Darksome ,
- Doggish ,
- Drearisome ,
- Dumpish ,
- Evil-favored ,
- Fiendish ,
- Fiendly ,
- Frigidness ,
- Funebrial ,
- Grewsome ,
- Grum ,
- Hard-favored ,
- Hard-featured ,
- Hard-visaged ,
- Hostilities ,
- Ill-looking ,
- Impliable ,
- Infestive ,
- Moodish ,
- Mopish ,
- Mumpish ,
- Pleasureless ,
- Pouting ,
- Repelled ,
- Revolted ,
- Sickened ,
- Snarling ,
- Sober-minded ,
- Sombrous ,
- Star-crossed ,
- Stayed ,
- Straitening ,
- Subfuscous ,
- Triste ,
- Ungiving ,
- Unhospitable ,
- Weariful ,
- abhorrent ,
- abject ,
- abominable ,
- absolutely ,
- abundantly ,
- abusive ,
- acerbity ,
- achromatic ,
- acrimony ,
- acutely ,
- adamant ,
- adamantine ,
- affording no hope ,
- agonizing ,
- alarming ,
- aloof ,
- animal ,
- antisocial ,
- apathetic ,
- appalling ,
- aristocratic ,
- aristocratical ,
- arms ,
- ashen ,
- asperity ,
- astounding ,
- astringency ,
- atrocious ,
- austerity ,
- awe-inspiring ,
- awesome ,
- awfully ,
- bad ,
- bad-tempered ,
- badly ,
- bald ,
- baleful ,
- baneful ,
- barbarous ,
- bare ,
- barfy ,
- barren ,
- base ,
- beast ,
- beastly ,
- begrimed ,
- benighted ,
- bestial ,
- biting ,
- bitter ,
- black ,
- blackened ,
- blasphemous ,
- blood-curdling ,
- bloodshed ,
- bloodthirsty ,
- bloody ,
- blue-blooded ,
- blueish ,
- bluff ,
- bluish ,
- bootleg ,
- bored ,
- bringing ruin ,
- brooding ,
- brutal ,
- brutality ,
- brute ,
- brutish ,
- bulldog ,
- bully ,
- bum ,
- burdensome ,
- cadaverous ,
- calamitous ,
- calloused ,
- cast-iron ,
- certain ,
- charnel ,
- cheerless ,
- cheesy ,
- choleric ,
- churlish ,
- closed ,
- clouded ,
- cloudy ,
- cold ,
- cold-fisted ,
- colored ,
- coloured ,
- comfortless ,
- completely ,
- condign ,
- contraband ,
- contractility ,
- contumelious ,
- convergence ,
- convict ,
- corrosive ,
- corrupt ,
- crabbed ,
- cranky ,
- crappy ,
- crazy ,
- creepy ,
- crepuscular ,
- criminal ,
- crotchety ,
- cruel ,
- cruelty ,
- crumby ,
- crummy ,
- crushed ,
- crushing ,
- crusty ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- darkening ,
- darkling ,
- dead set ,
- deadly ,
- dearly ,
- deathlike ,
- deathly ,
- debased ,
- decided ,
- decorous ,
- deeply ,
- degenerate ,
- demoralising ,
- demoralizing ,
- deplorable ,
- depraved ,
- depressing ,
- depressive ,
- deserted ,
- desolate ,
- desperate ,
- desperately ,
- determined ,
- devastating ,
- difficult ,
- dim ,
- dingy ,
- dire ,
- direful ,
- dirty ,
- disapproving ,
- disastrous ,
- discontented ,
- disgraceful ,
- disgusted ,
- disgusting ,
- disheartening ,
- dismal ,
- dispiriting ,
- dissolute ,
- distressing ,
- dogged ,
- doleful ,
- doom ,
- down ,
- downbeat ,
- downcast ,
- drab ,
- drawn ,
- dread ,
- dreaded ,
- dreadful ,
- drear ,
- dull ,
- dusky ,
- dyspeptic ,
- earnestly ,
- eerie ,
- egregious ,
- enormously ,
- entirely ,
- erosive ,
- evil ,
- evil-looking ,
- exceedingly ,
- excruciating ,
- execrable ,
- exigent ,
- extraordinarily ,
- extremely ,
- fatal ,
- fateful ,
- fearful ,
- fearfully ,
- fearsome ,
- fell ,
- felon ,
- felonious ,
- feral ,
- ferocious ,
- ferociously ,
- fiercely ,
- fighting ,
- firm ,
- firmness ,
- fixed ,
- flagitious ,
- flinty ,
- forbidding ,
- foreboding ,
- forlorn ,
- formal ,
- formidable ,
- foul ,
- frightening ,
- frightful ,
- frightfully ,
- frightfulness ,
- frigid ,
- frigidity ,
- frumpish ,
- fully ,
- funereal ,
- gamey ,
- gaunt ,
- ghastly ,
- ghostlike ,
- ghostly ,
- ghoulish ,
- glooming ,
- god-awful ,
- godawful ,
- good-for-naught ,
- good-for-nothing ,
- gory ,
- gravely ,
- gray ,
- greatly ,
- grey ,
- grievous ,
- grim-faced ,
- grimness ,
- grisly ,
- gross ,
- growling ,
- gruesome ,
- grungy ,
- haggard ,
- hairy ,
- hard ,
- hard core ,
- hardhanded ,
- hardhearted ,
- hardness ,
- harrowing ,
- harshness ,
- headstrong ,
- heart-breaking ,
- heart-rending ,
- heart-sickening ,
- heartily ,
- heartless ,
- heavily ,
- heinous ,
- highly ,
- hold ,
- homicidal ,
- hooligan ,
- hopeless ,
- horrendous ,
- horrific ,
- horrifying ,
- hugely ,
- humiliated ,
- humorless ,
- humourless ,
- icky ,
- ignominious ,
- ill ,
- ill-favored ,
- ill-humoured ,
- ill-natured ,
- ill-starred ,
- ill-tempered ,
- immensely ,
- immovable ,
- immutable ,
- implacable ,
- in despair ,
- inclemency ,
- inclement ,
- inconsolable ,
- incorrigible ,
- inelastic ,
- inevitable ,
- inexorable ,
- infinitely ,
- inglorious ,
- inhospitable ,
- inhuman ,
- inhumane ,
- inimical ,
- iniquitous ,
- inky ,
- intensely ,
- intractable ,
- intransigent ,
- irreconcilable ,
- juicy ,
- knavish ,
- lawless ,
- listless ,
- livid ,
- loathsome ,
- louring ,
- lousy ,
- low ,
- low-down ,
- low-toned ,
- lowering ,
- lowly ,
- lugubrious ,
- macabre ,
- mad ,
- melancholic ,
- menacing ,
- merciless ,
- mightily ,
- minacious ,
- minatory ,
- mirthless ,
- modest ,
- mopey ,
- morbid ,
- mordant ,
- mortal ,
- mortally ,
- most ,
- muddy ,
- murderous ,
- murky ,
- naughty ,
- nauseated ,
- nauseating ,
- nauseous ,
- necessity ,
- nightmarish ,
- no-count ,
- obscure ,
- offensive ,
- olive-drab ,
- ominous ,
- onerous ,
- opprobrious ,
- out of humor ,
- overcast ,
- painful ,
- pale ,
- pallid ,
- pasty ,
- pathetic ,
- peevish ,
- perfectly ,
- persistent ,
- pertinacious ,
- perverse ,
- perverted ,
- pessimistic ,
- pitch black ,
- pitch-dark ,
- pitchy ,
- pitiable ,
- pitiful ,
- pitiless ,
- po-faced ,
- poker-faced ,
- poorly ,
- prim ,
- profane ,
- profoundly ,
- profusely ,
- punishing ,
- punitive ,
- punk ,
- puritan ,
- putrid ,
- queasy ,
- quite ,
- racking ,
- racy ,
- ram ,
- ramrod ,
- rascal ,
- rascally ,
- raven ,
- really ,
- redoubtable ,
- regretful ,
- remorseless ,
- rending ,
- repellant ,
- repellent ,
- repugnant ,
- repulsive ,
- reserved ,
- resolute ,
- revolting ,
- rigor ,
- rigour ,
- risque ,
- rock-ribbed ,
- rotten ,
- rough ,
- roughshod ,
- rueful ,
- ruffian ,
- rugged ,
- rusty ,
- saddening ,
- sadly ,
- sanguinary ,
- sarcastic ,
- saturnine ,
- savage ,
- scary ,
- scratchy ,
- scurvy ,
- secret ,
- sepulchral ,
- serious ,
- seriously ,
- set ,
- settle ,
- severity ,
- shadowy ,
- shady ,
- shameful ,
- shitty ,
- shocking ,
- shockingly ,
- sick ,
- sickening ,
- significantly ,
- simple ,
- sinister ,
- slaughterous ,
- smutty ,
- snide ,
- soberly ,
- sobersided ,
- sombre ,
- sorely ,
- sorrowful ,
- sorry ,
- spectral ,
- spicy ,
- splenetic ,
- squalid ,
- squawky ,
- staid ,
- stanch ,
- steadfast ,
- steely ,
- sternness ,
- stiff ,
- stinking ,
- stinky ,
- stone-faced ,
- stony ,
- stop ,
- straight-faced ,
- strictness ,
- strongly ,
- stubborn as a mule ,
- stuffy ,
- stygian ,
- subfusc ,
- sulking ,
- sunless ,
- sword ,
- taciturn ,
- taint ,
- temperamental ,
- tenacious ,
- tenebrous ,
- terrible ,
- terribly ,
- terrific ,
- terrifically ,
- terrifying ,
- thoroughly ,
- thoughtful ,
- threatening ,
- thrilling ,
- totally ,
- tough ,
- tremendous ,
- trenchant ,
- tristful ,
- troubled ,
- troubling ,
- truculent ,
- truly ,
- trying ,
- tyrannical ,
- unadorned ,
- unaffected ,
- unalterable ,
- unappeasable ,
- unbalanced ,
- unchangeable ,
- uncharitable ,
- uncheerful ,
- uncomfortable ,
- uncommonly ,
- uncompassionate ,
- uneasy ,
- unembellished ,
- unfavourable ,
- unfeeling ,
- unflinching ,
- unforgiving ,
- unfulfilled ,
- ungentle ,
- ungoverned ,
- ungratified ,
- unhappy ,
- unhopeful ,
- unkind ,
- unkindly ,
- unlighted ,
- unlit ,
- unmoved ,
- unmoving ,
- unmusical ,
- unpleasant ,
- unpromising ,
- unquiet ,
- unregenerate ,
- unrelenting ,
- unrepentant ,
- unsatisfied ,
- unsentimental ,
- unsmiling ,
- unsparing ,
- unspeakable ,
- untamed ,
- unusually ,
- unwavering ,
- unyielding ,
- utterly ,
- vastly ,
- venomous ,
- very ,
- very much ,
- vicious ,
- vile ,
- villainous ,
- vindictive ,
- vinegary ,
- violent ,
- virulent ,
- wan ,
- war ,
- warfare ,
- wearisome ,
- weary ,
- weighty ,
- wholly ,
- wicked ,
- widely ,
- woebegone ,
- wolfish ,
- wretched ,
- yecchy .
- Asperous ,
- Doomful ,
- Ferine ,
- Hard-hearted ,
- Iron-fisted ,
- Lou ,
- Mortiferous ,
- Precursive ,
- Stickling ,
- Stridulous ,
- Unrepenting ,
- Wreakful ,
- anguished ,
- austere ,
- bleak ,
- by the book ,
- carcinogenic ,
- cold sober ,
- dead set on ,
- death-dealing ,
- deforested ,
- demoniac ,
- depressed ,
- die hard ,
- draggy ,
- frowning ,
- go for broke ,
- grabber ,
- grave ,
- grody ,
- hang in ,
- hang-tough ,
- hard line ,
- hard shell ,
- hardbitten ,
- hardnosed ,
- harsh ,
- having a killer instinct ,
- head-strong ,
- in blue funk ,
- ironfisted ,
- lamentable ,
- let-down ,
- like a bag of bones ,
- long-faced ,
- malefic ,
- malificent ,
- mean machine ,
- melancholy ,
- mule ,
- no nonsense ,
- not smooth ,
- off-putting ,
- out of tune ,
- out-of-key ,
- out-of-tune ,
- peaky ,
- premonitory ,
- ravening ,
- relentless ,
- retaliatory ,
- scraggiest ,
- scraggy ,
- self-willed ,
- set in one's ways ,
- shuddersome ,
- sickie ,
- singleminded ,
- skin and bones ,
- spine-chilling ,
- stark ,
- stiff-necked ,
- strict ,
- strictly business ,
- the end ,
- tigerish ,
- traumatic ,
- tuneless ,
- un-regenerate ,
- uncontrite ,
- undeviating ,
- undraped ,
- unlevel ,
- unmelodious ,
- unpopulated ,
- weatherbeaten ,
- windswept ,
- without pity ,
- woeful ,
- wraithlike .
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How to use "Grim" in context?
When most people hear the word "grim," they think of a dark, dreary, and foreboding world. This is because the word derives from the Old Norse grimmr, which means "to grow angry or to be gloomy." Grim describes something that is unpleasant, dark, and gloomy. The adjectives for grim are often negative, such as dark, dreary, and foreboding. There are, of course, many positive applications of the word as well, such as "grim determination" or "grim reality." In general, grim is a word that describes a negative condition or situation.
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acute, annoying, appalling, austere, awful, barbaric, brutal, callous, challenging, creepy, critical, cruel, deplorable, desperate, devastating, difficult, dim, disappointing, disastrous, disheartening, disquieting, draconian, dreadful, dreary, dusky, eerie, embarrassing, fearsome, fierce, formidable, frightening, ghastly, ghoulish, grave, grievous, harrowing, harsh, heartless, hideous, horrendous, horrible, lamentable, macabre, miserable, monstrous, nagging, nefarious, ominous, painful, pernicious, pessimistic, precarious, relentless, rigorous, rough, ruthless, sad, serious, shocking, sobering, spooky, stark, stern, stiff, stringent, terrible, tough, troublesome, troubling, unfortunate, unpleasant, cut-throat.
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alarming, atrocious, bitter, dark, daunting, depressing, dire, discouraging, distressing, disturbing, frightful, glum, gruesome, horrific, horrifying, merciless, murky, rigid, saddening, scary, severe, sinister, terrifying, tragic.
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