grim (gr m)adj. grim·mer, grim·mest 1. Unrelenting; rigid. 2. Uninviting or unnerving in aspect; forbidding: "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw" (J.M. Barrie). 3. Ghastly; sinister: "He made a grim jest at the horrifying nature of his wound" (Reginald Pound). See Synonyms at ghastly. 4. Dismal; gloomy: a grim, rainy day. 5. Ferocious; savage: the grim advance of the pillaging army. [Middle English, from Old English, fierce, severe.] grim  ly adv.grim ness n. |
grim [grɪm]
adj grimmer, grimmest
1. stern; resolute grim determination
2. harsh or formidable in manner or appearance
3. harshly ironic or sinister grim laughter
4. cruel, severe, or ghastly a grim accident
5. Archaic or poetic fierce a grim warrior
6. Informal unpleasant; disagreeable
hold on like grim death to hold very firmly or resolutely
[Old English grimm; related to Old Norse grimmr, Old High German grimm savage, Greek khremizein to neigh]
grimly adv
grimness n
ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
| Adj. | 1. |  grim - 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"implacable - incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy" |
| 2. | grim - 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"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen" alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger | |
| 3. | grim - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" sarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | |
| 4. | grim - 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 unpleasant - disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors" | |
| 5. | grim - filled with melancholy and despondency ; "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" down in the mouth, downhearted, low-spirited, gloomy, downcast, dispirited, blue, depressed, down, low dejected - affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful" | |
| 6. | grim - 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" cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place" |
grim
adjective
1. terrible, shocking, severe, harsh, forbidding, horrible, formidable, sinister, ghastly, hideous, gruesome (slang), grisly, horrid, frightful, godawful They painted a grim picture of growing crime.
2. dismal, depressing, bleak, gloomy, hopeless, dreary, sombre, joyless, cheerless, comfortless the tower blocks on the city's grim edges
3. stern, severe, harsh, grave, solemn, forbidding Her expression was grim and unpleasant.
stern kind, happy, soft, gentle, pleasant, sympathetic, cheerful, benign, amiable, genial
stern kind, happy, soft, gentle, pleasant, sympathetic, cheerful, benign, amiable, genial
5. merciless, fierce, cruel, ruthless, ferocious, resolute, unrelenting, implacable, unyielding a grim fight to the death
Translations
grim [grɪm] (grimmer (compar) (grimmest (superl)))
A. ADJ
1. (= gloomy) [news, situation, prospect] → desalentador; [reminder] → duro, crudo; [building, place, town] → sombrío, lúgubre
where she made the grim discovery of a body → donde hizo el macabro descubrimiento de un cadáver
the situation looked grim → la situación se presentaba muy negra
to paint a grim picture of sth → pintar un cuadro muy negro de algo
the grim reality → la dura or cruda realidad
the grim truth → la cruda verdad
he gave a grim warning to the British people → hizo una advertencia nada alentadora al pueblo británico
the weather has been grim → el tiempo ha estado deprimente
where she made the grim discovery of a body → donde hizo el macabro descubrimiento de un cadáver
the situation looked grim → la situación se presentaba muy negra
to paint a grim picture of sth → pintar un cuadro muy negro de algo
the grim reality → la dura or cruda realidad
the grim truth → la cruda verdad
he gave a grim warning to the British people → hizo una advertencia nada alentadora al pueblo británico
the weather has been grim → el tiempo ha estado deprimente
2. (= stern) [person] → adusto; [face, expression] → serio, adusto; [smile] → forzado
she hung or held on to the rope like grim death → se agarró or aferró a la cuerda como si la vida le fuera en ello
she walked on with grim determination → siguió caminando con absoluta determinación
he looked grim → tenía una expresión seria or adusta
his voice was grim → su voz tenía un tono severo or adusto
she hung or held on to the rope like grim death → se agarró or aferró a la cuerda como si la vida le fuera en ello
she walked on with grim determination → siguió caminando con absoluta determinación
he looked grim → tenía una expresión seria or adusta
his voice was grim → su voz tenía un tono severo or adusto
3. (= macabre) [humour, joke, story] → macabro
grim
adj (+er)
(= terrible) discovery, scene, task, news, story → grauenvoll; joke, warning, reminder → grauenhaft; situation → ernst, trostlos; necessity, truth → bitter; (= depressing) building, place, news, story → trostlos; prospect → trübe, düster; (= stern) person, face, smile, humour, silence, determination → grimmig; voice → ernst; battle, struggle → verbissen, unerbittlich; the grim reality of hospital work → die harte Realität der Arbeit in einem Krankenhaus; a grim picture of life in the war zone → ein trostloses Bild vom Leben im Kriegsgebiet; to paint a grim picture of something → etw in düsteren Farben schildern; to look grim (situation, future) → trostlos aussehen; (person) → ein grimmiges Gesicht machen; grim (sense of) humour (Brit) or humor (US) → Galgenhumor m; to cling or hang on to something like grim death → sich verzweifelt an etw (dat) → festklammern; the Grim Reaper → der Sensenmann
grim [grɪm] adj (-mer (comp) (-mest (superl))) (hard, unpleasant, gen) → duro/a; (struggle) → accanito/a; (silence) → sinistro/a; (landscape) → desolato/a; (humour, tale) → macabro/a; (determined, face) → risoluto/a, determinato/a; (determination) → feroce
to hold on (to sth) like grim death → attaccarsi (a qc) con le unghie e coi denti
to feel grim (fam) (ill) → sentirsi poco bene, sentirsi giù
grim [grɪm] adj (-mer (comp) (-mest (superl))) (hard, unpleasant, gen) → duro/a; (struggle) → accanito/a; (silence) → sinistro/a; (landscape) → desolato/a; (humour, tale) → macabro/a; (determined, face) → risoluto/a, determinato/a; (determination) → feroce
to hold on (to sth) like grim death → attaccarsi (a qc) con le unghie e coi denti
to feel grim (fam) (ill) → sentirsi poco bene, sentirsi giù
to hold on (to sth) like grim death → attaccarsi (a qc) con le unghie e coi denti
to feel grim (fam) (ill) → sentirsi poco bene, sentirsi giù
grim [grɪm] adj (-mer (comp) (-mest (superl))) (hard, unpleasant, gen) → duro/a; (struggle) → accanito/a; (silence) → sinistro/a; (landscape) → desolato/a; (humour, tale) → macabro/a; (determined, face) → risoluto/a, determinato/a; (determination) → feroce
to hold on (to sth) like grim death → attaccarsi (a qc) con le unghie e coi denti
to feel grim (fam) (ill) → sentirsi poco bene, sentirsi giù
adj grim [grim]
1 horrible; very unpleasant The soldiers had a grim task looking for bodies in the wrecked houses. grimmige, wrede كَريه، مُثير للإشْمِئْزاز зловещ příšerný, neradostný grusom; barsk schrecklich φρικτός, δυσάρεστος horrible, horroroso, macabro, nefasto peletav دلخراش؛ ناخوشایند epämiellyttävä sinistre נוֹרָאִי भयानक strašan, turoban félelmetes mengerikan andstyggilegur, óhugnanlegur macabro ぞっとするような 무서운 siaubingas, bjaurus, atgrasus drūms; briesmīgs susah vreselijk; akelig forferdelig, nifs, uhyggelig ponury macabro sinistru неприятный ponurý, strašný zoprn sumoran ohygglig ร้ายกาจ korkunç 令人害怕的, 令人極不愉快的 жорстокий خشمگیں khốc liệt 讨厌的, 严酷的
2 angry; fierce-looking; not cheerful The boss looks a bit grim this morning. nors مُتَجَهِّم свиреп hrozivý, vzteklý vred grimmig αγριωπός, βλοσυρός ceñudo; austero, severo sünge عبوس؛ خشم آلود tuima menaçant זוֹעֵף निर्दयी, निष्ठुर ljut, neveseo zord muram reiðilegur truce きびしい 불쾌한 rūstus bargs; nežēlīgs serius woedend; bars streng, morsk groźny aborrecido furios суровый nahnevaný srdit ljutit barsk, bister ดุร้าย öfkeli, asık suratlı 嚴肅不悅的 похмурий وحشت انگیز nghiêm khắc 可怕的
3 stubborn, unyielding grim determination. meedoënlose صارِم، عَنيد непреклонен nekompromisní nådesløs eisern άκαμπος, πεισματάρης inflexible, inexorable vankumatu تسلیم ناپذیر؛ مصمم tiukka inflexible עִיקֵש अड़ियल tvrdoglav, nepopustljiv makacs keras ósveigjanlegur risoluto 断固とした 단호한 tvirtas, nepalenkiamas nelokāms teguh onverzettelijk ubøyelig, sta nieugięty teimoso încăpăţânat непреклонный neochvejný, nekompromisný nepopustljiv tvrdoglav obeveklig, fast ไม่ยืดหยุ่น inatçı, boyun eğmez 倔強的 невблаганний اٹل kiên quyết 坚强的
n grimness
barsheid, norsheid تَجَهُّم строгост ponurost, pochmurnost grusomhed; ubarmhjertighed die Grimmigkeit βλοσυρότητα severidad; siniestridad, aspecto nefasto; inflexibilidad karmus خشونت؛ سرسختی kauheus aspect sinistre זַעַף, אַכזַרִיוּת मैल, गंदगी tvrdoglavost, nepopustljivost kegyetlenség; zordság; eltökéltség kemuraman óhugnaður aspetto sinistro/macabro きびしさ 무서움 siaubingumas, ryžtingumas bargums; nelokāmība keteguhan onverbiddelijkheid; meedogenloosheid dysterhet groza ferocidade sălbăticie; înfăţişare severă суровость; непреклонность pochmúrnosť zoprnost tvrdoglavost barskhet, obeveklighet ความร้ายกาจ inatçılık; zalimlik 頑強 жорстокість وحشت انگیزي sự dứt khoát 顽强
adv grimly
She held on grimly to the hope that there would be survivors. onverbiddelik بِعنادَه، بإصْرار непреклонно pochmurně ubarmhjertigt eisern γερά, σφιχτά severamente; siniestramente; inflexiblemente vankumatult بطور مصمم؛ با خشونت tiukasti sinistrement בְּעיקְשוּת निष्ठुरता से tvrdoglavo, nepopustljivo ádázul dengan teguh af hörku risolutamente 頑強に 엄하게 stipriai, tvirtai stipri; nelokāmi dengan teguh onverzettelijk, onverbiddelijk for livet, til det siste kurczowo ferozmente cumplit непреклонно neochvejne; pochmúrne; hrozivo krčevito tvrdoglavo obevekligt อย่างดุร้าย çok ciddî olarak 倔強地 жорстоко بے مہری سے dứt khoát 坚强（地）
like grim death
with great determination. op lewe en dood vasklou بتَصْميم شَديد с всички сили ze všech sil fast besluttet verbissen γερά, αποφασιστικά con determinación küünte ja hammastega با عزم راسخ päättäväisesti de toutes ses forces לְהֵיאָחֵז בְּכָל הַכּוח जबरदस्त संकल्प के साथ vrlo odlučno elkeseredetten tekad kuat af mikilli ákveðni/einbeitni con tutte le forze 力の限り 악착같이 dantis sukandus, iš paskutiniųjų dzelžaini; ar milzīgu apņēmību dengan azam yang teguh met alle krachten fast bestemt rozpaczliwie com determinação neabătut мёртвой хваткой zo všetkých síl z vso odločnostjo grčevito av alla krafter พิจารณาอย่างลึกซึ้ง kararlılıkla 頑強不屈 відчайдушно اٹل ، پکے عزم کے ساتھ không lay chuyển được 坚强不屈
grim → مروع hrozivý grum grimmig βλοσυρός deprimente synkkä morose odbojan bieco いやな 불길한 meedogenloos morsk srogi severo беспощадный bister เคร่งขรึม tatsız đáng lo ngại 严酷的
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