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Grim
adjective (compar. grimmer; superl. grimmest) 1.Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty. Synonyms: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting. "Grim necessity" , "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty" , "Relentless persecution" , "The stern demands of parenthood" 2.Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror. Synonyms: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick. "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" 3.Harshly ironic or sinister. Synonyms: black, mordant. "A grim joke" , "Grim laughter" , "Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" 4.Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance. Synonyms: dour, forbidding. "A forbidding scowl" , "A grim man loving duty more than humanity" , "Undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw" 5.Filled with melancholy and despondency. Synonyms: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low, low-spirited. "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" 6.Causing dejection. Synonyms: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry. "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"
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