Definition for Grim:

• Of a relentlessly stern, sullen expression; fierce; horrible.

Synonyms for Grim:

• adj.

  •abominable (adjective)
  • dis-gusting,
  • grodier,
  • wretched,
  • dis gusting,
  • gross,
  • beastliest,
  • grodiest,
  • beastlier,
  • re prehensible,
  • offensive,
  • re-prehensible,
  • heinous,
  • foul.
  •all (adjective)
  • unforgiving,
  • grim,
  • stern,
  • unappeasable,
  • inexorable.
  •appalling (adjective)
  • dis-maying,
  • endest,
  • most unnerving,
  • most scaring,
  • most daunting,
  • more daunting,
  • most disheartening,
  • most dismaying,
  • dis-heartening,
  • dis maying,
  • more petrifying,
  • more unnerving,
  • Ender,
  • un nerving,
  • more dismaying,
  • more disheartening,
  • most petrifying,
  • dis heartening,
  • more scaring,
  • un-nerving.
  •austere (adjective)
  • in flexible,
  • in exorable,
  • un feeling,
  • un-feeling,
  • ex acting,
  • ex-acting,
  • in-exorable,
  • formal,
  • in-flexible.
  •bad (adjective)
  • troubled,
  • troubling,
  • gloomy.
  •bleak (adjective)
  • un-promising,
  • un sheltered,
  • sad,
  • most windswept,
  • ex-posed,
  • more deforested,
  • un populated,
  • more unpromising,
  • de-solate,
  • more bulldozed,
  • stripped,
  • most deforested,
  • drearest,
  • un-populated,
  • most unpopulated,
  • most unpromising,
  • most bulldozed,
  • ex posed,
  • de-forested,
  • de-sert,
  • hopeless,
  • most scorched,
  • more windswept,
  • un promising,
  • de sert,
  • most blighted,
  • de solate,
  • un-sheltered,
  • more scorched,
  • de forested,
  • more blighted,
  • more unpopulated,
  • drearer,
  • weather beaten.
  •bloody (adjective)
  • more decimating,
  • most decimating,
  • murderous.
  •cheerless (adjective)
  • mopey,
  • jarring,
  • mopier,
  • most dejecting,
  • in dumps,
  • drab,
  • draggiest,
  • un comfortable,
  • most drearisome,
  • in the dumps,
  • more dejecting,
  • mopiest,
  • un-comfortable,
  • more drearisome,
  • tenebrific,
  • draggier.
  •deadly (adjective)
  • death dealing,
  • more death-dealing,
  • more deathdealing,
  • more slaying,
  • most mortiferous,
  • most killing,
  • de-stroying,
  • most deathdealing,
  • most death dealing,
  • more killing,
  • most destroying,
  • more destroying,
  • most slaying,
  • most carcinogenic,
  • most death-dealing,
  • deathdealing,
  • more death dealing,
  • more carcinogenic,
  • de stroying,
  • killing,
  • venomous,
  • more pestilent,
  • more mortiferous.
  •deathly (adjective)
  • Defunctive,
  • corpselike.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • contemplative,
  • discouraged,
  • blue,
  • dejected,
  • pensive,
  • disconsolate,
  • despairing,
  • dreary,
  • overcome,
  • heartbroken,
  • miserable,
  • plaintive,
  • dolorous,
  • lachrymose,
  • anxious,
  • glum,
  • downhearted,
  • disheartened,
  • mournful,
  • moody,
  • sullen,
  • morose,
  • dispirited,
  • despondent,
  • wistful,
  • joyless.
  •deplorable (adjective)
  • scandalous,
  • godawful,
  • opprobrious.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • low-down,
  • tristful,
  • bummed out,
  • lowdown,
  • in pain,
  • in a blue funk,
  • cast-down,
  • taken down,
  • on a downer,
  • torn up,
  • down in the dumps,
  • cast down,
  • in the pits,
  • in the toilet,
  • melancholic,
  • down and out,
  • down in dumps,
  • down in mouth.
  •difficult (adjective)
  • irritable,
  • bearish,
  • unamenable,
  • unaccommodating,
  • fractious,
  • oafish,
  • hard to please.
  •dire (adjective)
  • more oppressing,
  • re doubtable,
  • ruinous,
  • most scowling,
  • re-doubtable,
  • de pressing,
  • most oppressing,
  • portentous,
  • de-pressing,
  • more scowling.
  •dreadful (adjective)
  • more shuddersome,
  • most shuddersome.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • unspeakable.
  •ferocious (adjective)
  • more brutish,
  • untamed,
  • most ravening,
  • un tamed,
  • more wolfish,
  • feller,
  • more tigerish,
  • un-restrained,
  • un-merciful,
  • most brutish,
  • most wolfish,
  • most tigerish,
  • un-tamed,
  • un merciful,
  • fellest,
  • more ravening.
  •forbidding (adjective)
  • more glowering,
  • more off putting,
  • fore-boding,
  • un friendlier,
  • more foreboding,
  • un-friendly,
  • most off-putting,
  • un-approachable,
  • most glowering,
  • un friendliest,
  • offputting,
  • un-friendlier,
  • most off putting,
  • un approachable,
  • fore boding,
  • un-friendliest,
  • most offputting,
  • more off-putting,
  • unapproachable,
  • more offputting,
  • off putting,
  • most foreboding.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • nightmarish,
  • terrifying.
  •frightful/frightening (adjective)
  • in-conceivable,
  • in conceivable,
  • most grabber,
  • most traumatic,
  • dis quieting,
  • dis-quieting,
  • more grabber,
  • fearsome,
  • more traumatic.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal,
  • dirgelike.
  •gaunt (adjective)
  • most skeleton,
  • peakier,
  • more pinched,
  • most pinched,
  • like bag bones,
  • most attenuated,
  • peakiest,
  • more skeleton,
  • scraggier,
  • more attenuated,
  • skin bones,
  • like bag of bones,
  • like a bag bones.
  •ghastly (adjective)
  • un-natural,
  • most mortuary,
  • super natural,
  • un-cannier,
  • most wraithlike,
  • more wraithlike,
  • un canniest,
  • ghostly,
  • super-natural,
  • un-canny,
  • un-canniest,
  • un canny,
  • un cannier,
  • more mortuary.
  •ghoulish (adjective)
  • most spine chilling,
  • spinechilling,
  • de-monic,
  • spine chilling,
  • more spine-chilling,
  • more spine chilling,
  • most spinechilling,
  • de monic,
  • more spinechilling,
  • most spine-chilling.
  •grave (adjective)
  • longfaced,
  • nononsense,
  • more long faced,
  • most grimfaced,
  • most muted,
  • grim faced,
  • most long-faced,
  • un smiling,
  • more longfaced,
  • most longfaced,
  • more grim faced,
  • most grim faced,
  • more grimfaced,
  • grimfaced,
  • ponderous,
  • long faced,
  • most long faced,
  • most grim-faced,
  • more muted,
  • more long-faced,
  • un-smiling,
  • unsmiling,
  • more grim-faced,
  • more unsmiling,
  • most unsmiling.
  •grisly (adjective)
  • Blood-stained.
  •gruesome (adjective)
  • spine tingling,
  • spinetingling.
  •hard (adjective)
  • hard as nails,
  • unsparing,
  • hardboiled,
  • coldblooded,
  • harder.
  •hard-fought (adjective)
  • bloody.
  •harsh (adjective)
  • in-compatible,
  • un-musical,
  • dis agreeing,
  • more caterwauling,
  • more out of key,
  • un-civil,
  • hard nosed,
  • most unlevel,
  • un musical,
  • un-melodious,
  • more screeching,
  • more out-of-tune,
  • more jangling,
  • most out of tune,
  • more tuneless,
  • un gracious,
  • un melodious,
  • more asperous,
  • most out-of-key,
  • most jangling,
  • offkey,
  • more clashing,
  • hardshell,
  • most stridulous,
  • un level,
  • dis-sonant,
  • most out of key,
  • most cussed,
  • most tuneless,
  • un-gracious,
  • most out-of-tune,
  • un civil,
  • most screeching,
  • more out-of-key,
  • dis courteous,
  • most asperous,
  • more unmelodious,
  • un even,
  • most unmelodious,
  • unmusical,
  • most caterwauling,
  • more hard nosed,
  • un-even,
  • off key,
  • most creaking,
  • dis-agreeing,
  • more out of tune,
  • most clashing,
  • dis sonant,
  • more stridulous,
  • more cussed,
  • in compatible,
  • dis-courteous,
  • hard-nosed,
  • more creaking,
  • un-level,
  • more unlevel,
  • out of key.
  •hideous (adjective)
  • more beast,
  • un sightliest,
  • un-sightliest,
  • most beast,
  • un-comely,
  • de-testable,
  • un sightlier,
  • un-sightlier,
  • de testable,
  • un-sightly,
  • un comely,
  • un sightly.
  •hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance (adjective)
  • churlish,
  • foreboding,
  • cantankerous,
  • crabbed,
  • sulky,
  • dogged,
  • cruel,
  • grumpy,
  • splenetic,
  • resolute,
  • shocking,
  • surly,
  • glowering,
  • severe,
  • barbarous,
  • intractable,
  • grouchy,
  • formidable,
  • sour,
  • sinister,
  • truculent,
  • somber,
  • frightful,
  • crusty,
  • unyielding,
  • scowling.
  •horrible (adjective)
  • fairier,
  • more sickie,
  • most sickie,
  • fairiest.
  •horrible/horrendous/horrid (adjective)
  • scarier,
  • scary,
  • un holiest,
  • un-godly,
  • un godly,
  • horrendous,
  • un godliest,
  • un-holiest,
  • un-holier,
  • un holier,
  • un-godlier,
  • un holy,
  • un-holy,
  • un-godliest,
  • unholy,
  • un godlier.
  •horrid (adjective)
  • louer,
  • louest.
  •relentless (adjective)
  • more hang-tough,
  • more hangtough,
  • un stoppable,
  • un deviating,
  • most unstoppable,
  • more undeviating,
  • single minded,
  • stop at nothing,
  • more hang tough,
  • hangtough,
  • most hang-tough,
  • most undeviating,
  • unstoppable,
  • un-deviating,
  • most hang tough,
  • more unstoppable,
  • stop nothing,
  • bound determined,
  • most hangtough,
  • un-stoppable.
  •remorseless (adjective)
  • in-sensitive,
  • more hard hearted,
  • in sensitive,
  • un regenerate,
  • in tolerant,
  • un-repenting,
  • most hard-hearted,
  • un repenting,
  • more unrepenting,
  • un remitting,
  • most unrepenting,
  • un-contrite,
  • most hard hearted,
  • un contrite,
  • hard hearted,
  • un-remitting,
  • most uncontrite,
  • more hard-hearted,
  • hard bitten,
  • more uncontrite,
  • most unregenerate,
  • more unregenerate.
  •ruthless (adjective)
  • re-vengeful,
  • killer,
  • most killer,
  • re vengeful,
  • more killer.
  •savage (adjective)
  • more demoniac,
  • most demoniac,
  • most ferine,
  • more ferine.
  •serious (adjective)
  • sedate,
  • of consequence,
  • sober,
  • smoking,
  • earnest,
  • unamusing,
  • unhumorous,
  • intense,
  • solemn,
  • no joke,
  • no laughing matter,
  • Operose,
  • out for blood,
  • sobering,
  • dignified,
  • playing hard ball,
  • demure.
  •severe (adjective)
  • censorious,
  • cool,
  • imperial,
  • basic,
  • lean,
  • brisk,
  • raw,
  • disciplined,
  • fundamental,
  • ironhanded,
  • hidebound,
  • abrupt,
  • gruff,
  • critical,
  • blunt,
  • ascetic,
  • keen,
  • demanding,
  • short,
  • oppressive,
  • cutting,
  • inflexible,
  • icy,
  • iron-handed,
  • obdurate,
  • strait-laced,
  • effortful,
  • rigid,
  • piquant,
  • puritanical,
  • crisp,
  • sharp,
  • spartan,
  • prudish,
  • dry,
  • unbending,
  • exacting,
  • uncompromising,
  • precise,
  • draconian,
  • obstinate,
  • intolerant,
  • frosty,
  • caustic,
  • brusque,
  • flinty,
  • tart,
  • spare,
  • curt,
  • acerbic,
  • stringent,
  • authoritarian,
  • acute,
  • rigorous,
  • astringent,
  • acrimonious,
  • correct,
  • chilly,
  • meticulous.
  •sobersided (adjective)
  • sobersided,
  • in earnest.
  •somber (adjective)
  • more depressive,
  • most depressive,
  • most sourpuss,
  • more sourpuss.
  •stark (adjective)
  • most unclothed,
  • un clad,
  • un covered,
  • un clothed,
  • un-clothed,
  • un-clad,
  • more unclothed,
  • un draped,
  • un-draped,
  • most undraped,
  • more undraped.
  •stern (adjective)
  • by book,
  • most stiffnecked,
  • dyed in the wool,
  • most hardheaded,
  • steelier,
  • most stiff necked,
  • most stiff-necked,
  • more stiffnecked,
  • more mortified,
  • steeliest,
  • stiff necked,
  • more stiff necked,
  • stiffnecked,
  • most mortified,
  • hardline,
  • more stiff-necked,
  • hardheaded.
  •strict (adjective)
  • most unpermissive,
  • most stickling,
  • up tight,
  • up-tight,
  • more stickling,
  • more unpermissive,
  • un permissive,
  • unpermissive,
  • un-permissive.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • cross,
  • uncooperative,
  • cynical,
  • beetle-browed,
  • malevolent,
  • fretful,
  • ungenial,
  • irascible,
  • crabby,
  • noncooperative,
  • Moping,
  • dissociable,
  • hostile,
  • unsociable,
  • contrary,
  • unfriendly,
  • petulant,
  • mean,
  • broody.
  •threatening (adjective)
  • minatory,
  • minacious,
  • Lowery,
  • loury,
  • over hanging,
  • comminatory,
  • Impendent,
  • overhanging,
  • Intimidatory.
  •tragic (adjective)
  • heart rending,
  • more crushing,
  • most crushing,
  • ill starred,
  • more heart-rending,
  • illstarred,
  • more anguished,
  • most anguished,
  • ill-starred,
  • most heart rending,
  • most heart-rending,
  • more heart rending.
  •unbendable (adjective)
  • un bendable,
  • un-bendable.
  •uncompliant (adjective)
  • un compliant,
  • un-compliant.
  •unforgiving (adjective)
  • un charitable,
  • un-charitable,
  • un-forgiving,
  • un forgiving.
  •unhappy (adjective)
  • un happiest,
  • un happy,
  • most let down,
  • un happier,
  • more let down,
  • most letdown,
  • un-happier,
  • most let-down,
  • un-happiest,
  • more letdown,
  • un-happy,
  • more let-down,
  • heavy hearted.
  •unhospitable (adjective)
  • un-hospitable,
  • Unhospitable,
  • un-inviting,
  • un hospitable,
  • un inviting.
  •unrelenting (adjective)
  • unabated,
  • brick wall,
  • brick-wall,
  • Hard-headed.
  •vindictive (adjective)
  • most wreakful,
  • more retaliatory,
  • more avenging,
  • more wreakful,
  • most avenging,
  • most grudging,
  • most retaliatory,
  • more grudging.
  •woebegone (adjective)
  • shot down,
  • woebegone,
  • down-in-the-mouth,
  • griefstricken,
  • chapfallen.
  •woeful (adjective)
  • most tortured,
  • dis-appointing,
  • in-adequate,
  • most agonized,
  • in adequate,
  • dis appointing,
  • more racked,
  • heartsick,
  • more agonized,
  • most racked,
  • most grieving,
  • more tortured,
  • more grieving,
  • Racked.

• n.

  •
  • upsetting,
  • heartbreaking,
  • terrible,
  • unhappy,
  • painful.
  •
  • dedicated,
  • insistent,
  • motivated,
  • iron,
  • resist,
  • remorseless,
  • ambitious,
  • purposeful,
  • sedulous,
  • driven,
  • competitive.
  •
  • displeased,
  • belligerent,
  • put out,
  • upset,
  • annoyed,
  • attitude,
  • hot,
  • angry,
  • irritated.
  •
  • infectious,
  • frail,
  • unwell,
  • worse,
  • failing,
  • fragile,
  • unfit,
  • beautiful,
  • unhealthy.
  •
  • disagreeable,
  • objectionable,
  • awful.
  •alarming (noun)
  • alarming.
  •black (noun)
  • black.
  •dark (noun)
  • dark.
  •depressing (noun)
  • depressing.
  •dismal (noun)
  • dismal.
  •dispiriting (noun)
  • dispiriting.
  •dour (noun)
  • dour.
  •forbidding (noun)
  • forbidding.
  •grim (noun)
  • unpleasant,
  • grisly,
  • sarcastic,
  • uncheerful,
  • mordant.
  •relentless (noun)
  • wicked.
  •unfriendly (noun)
  • stony,
  • aloof,
  • cold,
  • distant,
  • antagonistic.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • chi-chi,
  • twee,
  • unflattering,
  • yucky,
  • unappealing,
  • plug-ugly,
  • unprepossessing,
  • fierce,
  • unlovable,
  • Minging,
  • Charmless,
  • unsightly,
  • unlovely,
  • hulking.
  •
  • grotesque,
  • severely,
  • stubborn,
  • homely,
  • showy,
  • graceless,
  • monstrous,
  • sordid,
  • die-hard,
  • unattractive,
  • unbecoming,
  • sexless.
  •
  • tasteless,
  • ugly.
  •
  • plain.
  •
  • look at.

Paraphrases for Grim:

• Equivalence

  • Adjective
    gloomy, bleak, sombre, dismal, somber.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    macabre, terrible, harsh, disappointing, troublesome, horrible, appalling, sad, grave, tough, stark, dim, formidable, dreadful, frightening, disheartening, serious, miserable, cruel, nagging, sobering, eerie, dreary, pessimistic, rigorous, ominous, troubling, ruthless, difficult, brutal, annoying, horrendous, stringent, creepy, unpleasant, embarrassing, draconian, stern, fierce, painful, harrowing, disastrous, challenging, hideous, spooky, relentless, ghoulish, devastating, ghastly, critical, awful, unfortunate, shocking, nefarious, lamentable, stiff, pernicious, deplorable, dusky, austere, callous, disquieting, grievous, monstrous, precarious, barbaric, desperate, fearsome, heartless, rough, acute, cut-throat.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    sinister, depressing, severe, dire, gruesome, dark, disturbing, daunting, alarming, horrifying, bitter, murky, terrifying, horrific, discouraging, distressing, merciless, atrocious, tragic, scary, saddening, rigid, glum, frightful.

Antonyms for Grim:

• adj.

  • hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
    gentle, pretty, good, light, encouraging, pleasant, pleasing, kind, happy, sunny, wonderful, hopeful, comforting, nice, cheerful, joyful, bright.
  • Other antonyms:
    cozy, slackening, civilized, pliable, giddy, calm, easy, cultured, glad, flighty, endurable, agreeable, unalarming, lighthearted, harebrained, hearty, goofy, featherbrained, scatterbrained, unsarcastic, yielding, mirthful, impotent, genial, obliging, amicable, merciful, congenial, light-headed, peaceable, pliant, painless, reposeful, pacific, compliant, softening, clement, submissive, warm, restful, slack, comradely, cordial, bearable, amiable, hospitable, luxurious, merry, peaceful, tranquil, weak, human, friendly, sweet, moderate, elated, spineless, inviting, meek, tame, silly, temperate, relaxing, companionable, comfortable, unaggressive, placable, snug, frivolous, tolerable, invertebrate, quiet, complaisant.

Grim Sentence Examples:

• The girl looked grim and a little pale.

• " We can't forget it till it's settled," said Dotty, and her lips came tightly together with a grim expression that she showed only when desperately in earnest.

Homophones for Grim:

• grimm, Grimme.