DICTOMETER

GRIM

(grim, macabro, severo, bister, uhyggelig)

1. Synonyms:
   • Grim
   • Inexorable
   • Relentless
   • Stern
   • Unappeasable
   • Unforgiving
   • Unrelenting
   Definitions:
   • not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
   Examples:
   • Grim determination
   • Grim necessity
   • Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
   • Relentless persecution
   • The stern demands of parenthood
   Antonyms:
   • Placable
   
   
   
2. Synonyms:
   • Ghastly
   • Grim
   • Grisly
   • Gruesome
   • Macabre
   • Sick
   Definitions:
   • shockingly repellent
   • inspiring horror
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Unalarming
   
   
   
3. Synonyms:
   • Black
   • Grim
   • Mordant
   Definitions:
   • harshly ironic or sinister
   Examples:
   • Black humor
   • A grim joke
   • Grim laughter
   • Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
   Antonyms:
   • Unsarcastic
   
   
   
4. Synonyms:
   • Dour
   • Forbidding
   • Grim
   Definitions:
   • harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Pleasant
   
   
   
5. Synonyms:
   • Gloomy
   • Grim
   • Blue
   • Depressed
   • Dispirited
   • Down
   • Downcast
   • Downhearted
   • Down in the mouth
   • Low
   • Low-spirited
   Definitions:
   • filled with melancholy and despondency
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Elated
   
   
   
6. Synonyms:
   • Blue
   • Dark
   • Dingy
   • Disconsolate
   • Dismal
   • Gloomy
   • Grim
   • Sorry
   • Drab
   • Drear
   • Dreary
   Definitions:
   • causing dejection
   Examples:
   • 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
   Antonyms:
   • Cheerful