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Definition of grim : Of forbidding or fear- inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Synonyms:

disastrous, unconsolable, gruesome, sick of, blasphemous, contraband, lurid, drab, vitriolic, dim, black-market, dispiriting, sick, dingy, fed up, brutal, sombre, tired of, erosive, pallid, gloomful, deplorable, beautiful, hot, corrosive, ominous, mordant, unappeasable, low, obscure, fateful, gentle, horrid, profane, regretful, risque, attitude, pitch-black, brassbound, sorry, depressing, disturbed, blueish, grisly, horrible, shameful, spicy, incompliant, sinister, bluish, unforgiving, sarcastic, sepulchral, inconsolable, minacious, demented, olive-drab, hopeless, pitiful, muddy, down, coloured, opprobrious, muddied, unpleasant, iron, good-for-naught, unhinged, aristocratic, down in the mouth, raunchy, wicked, fatal, smuggled, good-for-nothing, crazy, threatening, nauseated, lamentable, meritless, unbalanced, adamantine, juicy, grungy, black, sickish, queasy, pale, begrimed, benighted, dark-skinned, low-spirited, aristocratical, no-account, naughty, tenacious, blackened, glooming, implacable, uncompliant, unrelenting, mad, wan, dirty, ill, menacing, gamey, disgraceful, hard, ghastly, grimy, puritanic, no-good, macabre, bootleg, dogged, baleful, non-white, forbidding, downcast, adamant, charnel, inglorious, bad, persistent, remorseless, calamitous, dismal, brainsick, pertinacious, no-count, alarming, gamy, drear, intransigent, resist, distressing, unbendable, grubby, inexorable, minatory, pitch-dark, disgusted, blue-blooded, racy, hideous, unyielding, patrician, nauseous, ignominious, uncheerful, saturnine, die-hard, cheerless, smutty

contemplative, discouraged, disconsolate, heartbroken, dejected, anxious, downhearted, woeful, joyless, gloomy, melancholy, sullen, despondent, dreary, depressed, disheartened, overcome, glum, mournful, despairing, moody, anguished, lachrymose, morose, plaintive, wistful, sad, blue, miserable, pensive, dispirited, dolorous

demanding, rigid, austere, fundamental, harsh, rigorous, brusque, dry, uncompromising, precise, curt, piquant, correct, brisk, chilly, obstinate, imperial, stiff-necked, bleak, obdurate, disciplined, cutting, spare, stringent, icy, blunt, caustic, censorious, lean, cool, tart, exacting, basic, acute, sharp, ascetic, acerbic, inflexible, raw, astringent, prudish, meticulous, severe, frosty, Spartan, Draconian, hidebound, acrimonious, unbending, intolerant, puritanical, oppressive, keen, critical, authoritarian, short, abrupt, strict, stern, relentless, stark, intense, crisp, gruff, strait-laced, dour

fretful, cheerful, cynical, frowning, dark, sulky, sour, cantankerous, unfriendly, stubborn, dissociable, ungenial, surly, repellent, hostile, churlish, mean, uncooperative, unsociable, beetle-browed, crabbed, intractable, glowering, petulant, moping, grouchy, happy, contrary, long-faced, cross, crabby, irascible, splenetic, scowling, malevolent, broody, grumpy, noncooperative, crusty

sober, grave, solemn, somber, earnest, sedate, dignified, demure

Usage examples:

• In grim anger I swam with all my strength. - "Simon Dale", Anthony Hope.
• They were the losing party in the grim game of war, enemies- rebels. - "The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers", Georg Ebers.
• He had locked the door after him, as he came into the library, with a sort of grim determination to settle the question before he stepped into the outside world again. - "The Chautauqua Girls At Home", Pansy, AKA Isabella M. Alden.