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English to English adjective
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Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. |  | source: webster1913 adjective satellite
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not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | | Example: grim determination
grim necessity
Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
relentless persecution
the stern demands of parenthood
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shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | | Example: 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
source: wordnet30
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harshly ironic or sinister | | Example: black humor
a grim joke
grim laughter
fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
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harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | | Example: 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
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filled with melancholy and despondency | | Example: 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
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causing dejection | | Example: 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
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