GRIM

Definition:

1. [adjective] 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”
   Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

2. [adjective] 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”
   Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre

3. [adjective] harshly ironic or sinister; “black humor”; “a grim joke”; “grim laughter”; “fun ranging from slapstick clowning … to savage mordant wit”
   Synonyms: black, mordant

4. [adjective] 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”
   Synonyms: blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy

5. [adjective] 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
   Synonyms: dour, forbidding

6. [adjective] 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”
   Synonyms: gloomy, darkening

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