• 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"; "macabr
• 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"
• characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "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"
• 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"
• 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
• harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a Grim joke"; "Grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

'Grim' in other languages