Definition for Grim:

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

Synonyms for Grim:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • inexorable,
  • unappeasable,
  • unforgiving,
  • stern.
  •bad (adjective)
  • troubled,
  • troubling,
  • gloomy.
  •dejected (adjective)
  • blue,
  • wistful,
  • overcome,
  • disconsolate,
  • disheartened,
  • discouraged,
  • joyless,
  • dreary,
  • plaintive,
  • heartbroken,
  • lachrymose,
  • downhearted,
  • dejected,
  • dolorous,
  • despondent,
  • mournful,
  • miserable,
  • anxious,
  • morose,
  • contemplative,
  • sullen,
  • pensive,
  • sad,
  • glum,
  • dispirited,
  • moody,
  • despairing.
  •deplorable (adjective)
  • opprobrious,
  • godawful.
  •depressed (adjective)
  • melancholic,
  • tristful,
  • low-down.
  •fearful (adjective)
  • unspeakable.
  •frightening (adjective)
  • nightmarish,
  • terrifying.
  •funereal (adjective)
  • funereal.
  •hard (adjective)
  • unsparing.
  •hard-fought (adjective)
  • bloody.
  •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.
  •serious (adjective)
  • dignified,
  • sedate,
  • solemn,
  • sober,
  • demure,
  • earnest,
  • intense.
  •severe (adjective)
  • caustic,
  • puritanical,
  • authoritarian,
  • acute,
  • disciplined,
  • sharp,
  • demanding,
  • censorious,
  • stringent,
  • fundamental,
  • gruff,
  • obdurate,
  • draconian,
  • exacting,
  • correct,
  • acerbic,
  • ascetic,
  • precise,
  • imperial,
  • lean,
  • critical,
  • meticulous,
  • cool,
  • basic,
  • icy,
  • rigorous,
  • curt,
  • brisk,
  • raw,
  • tart,
  • intolerant,
  • spare,
  • short,
  • hidebound,
  • rigid,
  • blunt,
  • prudish,
  • unbending,
  • piquant,
  • acrimonious,
  • chilly,
  • dry,
  • brusque,
  • oppressive,
  • inflexible,
  • keen,
  • spartan,
  • obstinate,
  • astringent,
  • crisp,
  • abrupt,
  • uncompromising,
  • strait-laced,
  • cutting,
  • frosty.
  •sullen (adjective)
  • cross,
  • uncooperative,
  • cynical,
  • beetle-browed,
  • malevolent,
  • fretful,
  • ungenial,
  • irascible,
  • crabby,
  • noncooperative,
  • Moping,
  • dissociable,
  • hostile,
  • unsociable,
  • contrary,
  • unfriendly,
  • petulant,
  • mean,
  • broody.

• n.

  •
  • terrible,
  • unhappy,
  • painful.
  •
  • iron,
  • remorseless.
  •
  • awful.
  •grim (noun)
  • unpleasant,
  • depressing,
  • dispiriting,
  • mordant,
  • dismal,
  • dark,
  • grisly,
  • alarming,
  • dour,
  • uncheerful,
  • sarcastic,
  • hopeless,
  • forbidding,
  • black.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • unsightly,
  • unprepossessing,
  • unlovely,
  • fierce,
  • unflattering,
  • unappealing.
  •
  • sexless,
  • unattractive,
  • grotesque,
  • stubborn,
  • unbecoming,
  • monstrous,
  • sordid,
  • die-hard,
  • severely,
  • showy.
  •
  • tasteless,
  • ugly.
  •
  • plain.
  •Other relevant words:
  • distressing,
  • astounding,
  • determined,
  • revolting,
  • unembellished,
  • beastly,
  • minacious,
  • crappy,
  • deserted,
  • profane,
  • unsentimental,
  • ignominious,
  • clouded,
  • disapproving,
  • Sickened,
  • utterly,
  • disgusted,
  • fearfully,
  • bulldog,
  • flinty,
  • pasty,
  • demoralizing,
  • poorly,
  • unbalanced,
  • wicked,
  • peevish,
  • acerbity,
  • frightfully,
  • homicidal,
  • shady,
  • austerity,
  • weighty,
  • excruciating,
  • disastrous,
  • sickening,
  • enormously,
  • po-faced,
  • modest,
  • saturnine,
  • gray,
  • extraordinarily,
  • louring,
  • gravely,
  • ill-humoured,
  • widely,
  • desperately,
  • crazy,
  • repugnant,
  • juicy,
  • vile,
  • execrable,
  • choleric,
  • doom,
  • nauseous,
  • murderous,
  • colored,
  • repulsive,
  • barren,
  • blasphemous,
  • unsmiling,
  • unlit,
  • stubborn as a mule,
  • Frigidness,
  • evil,
  • ungoverned,
  • violent,
  • uncompassionate,
  • settle,
  • fatal,
  • redoubtable,
  • taciturn,
  • frightfulness,
  • sulking,
  • Infestive,
  • ill,
  • stinky,
  • bald,
  • naughty,
  • ghostly,
  • simple,
  • convict,
  • terrifically,
  • inhuman,
  • gross,
  • calloused,
  • incorrigible,
  • rascally,
  • mopey,
  • ram,
  • ill-natured,
  • punitive,
  • spicy,
  • dearly,
  • Black-hearted,
  • Black-browed,
  • coloured,
  • decorous,
  • dusky,
  • exigent,
  • felonious,
  • rough,
  • mortally,
  • dingy,
  • humorless,
  • fully,
  • extremely,
  • highly,
  • out of humor,
  • unchangeable,
  • inglorious,
  • thoroughly,
  • inhospitable,
  • punishing,
  • unlighted,
  • olive-drab,
  • Straitening,
  • inevitable,
  • lawless,
  • cloudy,
  • immovable,
  • dread,
  • rigour,
  • repellent,
  • aristocratical,
  • haggard,
  • convergence,
  • contractility,
  • atrocious,
  • Sombrous,
  • earnestly,
  • bored,
  • obscure,
  • rock-ribbed,
  • crushing,
  • low-toned,
  • disgusting,
  • baneful,
  • bully,
  • sepulchral,
  • heinous,
  • fell,
  • feral,
  • hardness,
  • totally,
  • significantly,
  • hugely,
  • closed,
  • pessimistic,
  • dreaded,
  • prim,
  • wan,
  • crushed,
  • unusually,
  • grey,
  • mad,
  • nauseating,
  • condign,
  • rending,
  • acrimony,
  • straight-faced,
  • Hard-favored,
  • absolutely,
  • Evil-favored,
  • fighting,
  • formal,
  • Impliable,
  • good-for-naught,
  • hardhanded,
  • abusive,
  • rigor,
  • stanch,
  • Pouting,
  • greatly,
  • bloodthirsty,
  • fearsome,
  • unaffected,
  • beast,
  • bootleg,
  • pathetic,
  • disheartening,
  • darkening,
  • woebegone,
  • hooligan,
  • sorry,
  • Grum,
  • heartily,
  • grievous,
  • tough,
  • humiliated,
  • stop,
  • headstrong,
  • bestial,
  • lugubrious,
  • frumpish,
  • putrid,
  • dim,
  • ungratified,
  • arms,
  • darkling,
  • felon,
  • murky,
  • firmness,
  • ill-tempered,
  • down,
  • cruelty,
  • ill-favored,
  • unfavourable,
  • shitty,
  • awfully,
  • minatory,
  • severity,
  • war,
  • horrifying,
  • decided,
  • achromatic,
  • direful,
  • discontented,
  • debased,
  • venomous,
  • corrupt,
  • sanguinary,
  • perverted,
  • stuffy,
  • burdensome,
  • unfeeling,
  • thoughtful,
  • listless,
  • inconsolable,
  • drab,
  • warfare,
  • iniquitous,
  • rotten,
  • low,
  • ramrod,
  • Dumpish,
  • curmudgeonly,
  • taint,
  • perverse,
  • egregious,
  • seriously,
  • rugged,
  • onerous,
  • unrepentant,
  • desolate,
  • horrendous,
  • regretful,
  • crumby,
  • bitter,
  • brutal,
  • risque,
  • abject,
  • inclemency,
  • overcast,
  • cadaverous,
  • adamant,
  • terribly,
  • Weariful,
  • slaughterous,
  • spectral,
  • blueish,
  • stygian,
  • unquiet,
  • bluish,
  • Revolted,
  • strongly,
  • blue-blooded,
  • queasy,
  • offensive,
  • really,
  • brute,
  • Unhospitable,
  • wretched,
  • thrilling,
  • unalterable,
  • sunless,
  • stiff,
  • squalid,
  • acutely,
  • heart-breaking,
  • benighted,
  • truly,
  • Triste,
  • rueful,
  • pitchy,
  • unwavering,
  • depraved,
  • creepy,
  • pitiable,
  • calamitous,
  • roughshod,
  • forlorn,
  • pale,
  • poker-faced,
  • icky,
  • dirty,
  • inky,
  • unfulfilled,
  • sorrowful,
  • cheesy,
  • doleful,
  • gory,
  • Ungiving,
  • ruffian,
  • adamantine,
  • wholly,
  • Star-crossed,
  • bloodshed,
  • unkindly,
  • wearisome,
  • inimical,
  • aloof,
  • harshness,
  • blood-curdling,
  • pitiful,
  • growling,
  • sternness,
  • smutty,
  • disgraceful,
  • lowering,
  • Hostilities,
  • bad-tempered,
  • secret,
  • fateful,
  • ashen,
  • tyrannical,
  • very much,
  • antisocial,
  • harrowing,
  • shockingly,
  • badly,
  • lousy,
  • tenebrous,
  • perfectly,
  • flagitious,
  • humourless,
  • Doggish,
  • exceedingly,
  • uncomfortable,
  • menacing,
  • scary,
  • lowly,
  • abhorrent,
  • tremendous,
  • Darksome,
  • vinegary,
  • livid,
  • deathlike,
  • infinitely,
  • shadowy,
  • racking,
  • unmoved,
  • trenchant,
  • hold,
  • Mopish,
  • unflinching,
  • profusely,
  • in despair,
  • Pleasureless,
  • unsatisfied,
  • loathsome,
  • steadfast,
  • no-count,
  • agonizing,
  • Funebrial,
  • rusty,
  • Sober-minded,
  • unkind,
  • ungentle,
  • shameful,
  • crotchety,
  • snide,
  • completely,
  • very,
  • downbeat,
  • tenacious,
  • raven,
  • sorely,
  • unadorned,
  • contraband,
  • erosive,
  • terrific,
  • rascal,
  • Hard-visaged,
  • frigidity,
  • awe-inspiring,
  • dyspeptic,
  • knavish,
  • Fiendish,
  • brutality,
  • firm,
  • Grewsome,
  • trying,
  • animal,
  • virulent,
  • pitiless,
  • villainous,
  • sobersided,
  • untamed,
  • comfortless,
  • eerie,
  • reserved,
  • entirely,
  • desperate,
  • yecchy,
  • strictness,
  • grungy,
  • contumelious,
  • bum,
  • A,
  • ferociously,
  • repellant,
  • devastating,
  • sadly,
  • begrimed,
  • heart-sickening,
  • sword,
  • immutable,
  • bare,
  • astringency,
  • intensely,
  • nauseated,
  • foul,
  • stone-faced,
  • awesome,
  • immensely,
  • intransigent,
  • vastly,
  • subfusc,
  • drawn,
  • criminal,
  • Stayed,
  • frightening,
  • unhopeful,
  • pertinacious,
  • Moodish,
  • blackened,
  • persistent,
  • inclement,
  • inelastic,
  • pitch black,
  • crummy,
  • stinking,
  • Mumpish,
  • corrosive,
  • quite,
  • hardhearted,
  • deeply,
  • staid,
  • baleful,
  • degenerate,
  • fiercely,
  • scurvy,
  • set,
  • bluff,
  • heavily,
  • stony,
  • good-for-nothing,
  • certain,
  • uncommonly,
  • pallid,
  • bringing ruin,
  • demoralising,
  • unmusical,
  • profoundly,
  • fixed,
  • Ill-looking,
  • gamey,
  • sick,
  • Snarling,
  • hairy,
  • uneasy,
  • dissolute,
  • weary,
  • Cruel-hearted,
  • saddening,
  • Repelled,
  • unmoving,
  • dull,
  • necessity,
  • Hard-featured,
  • Fiendly,
  • base,
  • muddy,
  • temperamental,
  • aristocratic,
  • mightily,
  • grimness,
  • crepuscular,
  • asperity,
  • most,
  • soberly,
  • heartless,
  • evil-looking,
  • brooding,
  • irreconcilable,
  • biting,
  • racy,
  • sombre,
  • cranky,
  • uncharitable,
  • puritan,
  • charnel,
  • glooming,
  • punk,
  • ill-starred,
  • cold,
  • abundantly,
  • Subfuscous,
  • apathetic,
  • cast-iron,
  • vicious,
  • frigid,
  • downcast,
  • pitch-dark.

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.

Homophones for Grim:

• grimm, Grimme.