grim
Meaning of grim
adjective
- very serious or gloomy.
his grim expression
she was looking grim
- (especially of a place) unattractive or forbidding.
rows of grim, dark housing developments
a grim goalless draw in appalling weather
Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm .
Information about grim
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of grim
grim
- It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
- grim is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
grim synonyms
Meaning inexorable:
inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
Meaning ghastly:
ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
Meaning black:
Meaning blue:
blue, dark, depressing, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy, sorry, drab, drear, dreary
Meaning dour:
Meaning gloomy:
Meaning (especially of a place or prospect) not attractive:
Meaning not welcoming or friendly:
Meaning not friendly or forthcoming; cool and distant:
Meaning far away in space or time:
Meaning inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable:
Meaning demanding that rules concerning behaviour are obeyed and observed:
Meaning unpleasantly rough or jarring to the senses:
Meaning coldly determined; hard:
Meaning of, containing, or reminiscent of flint:
Meaning covered with or full of small pieces of rock:
Meaning having or displaying an intense or ferocious aggressiveness:
Meaning savagely fierce, cruel, or violent:
Meaning having a hostile or deliberately frightening quality or manner:
Meaning suggesting the presence of danger; threatening:
Meaning annoyed:
Meaning rude in a mean-spirited and surly way:
Meaning (of handwriting) very small and difficult to decipher:
Meaning bad-tempered and unfriendly:
Meaning having an acid taste like lemon or vinegar:
Meaning (of a person or their manner or expression) serious or unfriendly; not smiling:
Meaning causing pain or suffering:
Meaning having or showing no pity or compassion for others:
Meaning showing no mercy:
Meaning (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favourable outcome:
Meaning of poor quality; very bad:
Meaning causing unhappiness or discomfort:
Meaning causing someone to lose determination or confidence; discouraging or dispiriting:
Meaning gloomy; depressing:
Meaning offering no means of relaxation and pleasure:
Meaning not giving or feeling any pleasure or satisfaction; grim or dismal:
Meaning having or conveying a feeling of deep seriousness and sadness:
Meaning extremely bad or unpleasant:
grim antonyms
Meaning having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner:
Meaning giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment:
Translation of grim
- German: grimmig, entmutigen
- Portuguese: sanguinário
- Italian: truce, triste, deprimente, scoraggiante, sconsolante
- French: courroucé, décourageant
- Spanish: siniestro, desconsolado, desconsolada, deprimente, depresivo, depresiva
Words that rhyme with grim
Grim, magrim, Isegrim, begrim, megrim, sigrim, Pilgrim, pilgrim, Ingrim, Pergrim, augrim
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