grim

Meaning

Adj

1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
2. Rigid and unrelenting.
3. Ghastly or sinister.
4. Disgusting; gross.
5. (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.

Verb

To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

Noun

A promiscuous woman.

Noun

1. (obsolete) Anger, wrath.
2. (obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.

Synonyms

stern

gloomy

dismal

fierce

cruel

serious

blue

bleak

dark

disconsolate

gruesome

brutal

drab

grisly

atrocious

merciless

macabre

unkind

ghastly

dreary

forbidding

black

barbarian

sick

🤢

sullen

bloodthirsty

harsh

incisive

unrelenting

inexorable

inhuman

barbarous

drear

dispirited

stark

depressed

sorry

mordant

dour

relentless

nasty

down

downcast

low

low-spirited

humorless

somber

downhearted

solemn

dingy

unappeasable

down in the mouth

heartless

grave

🪦

ghoulish

unforgiving

unappealing

unappetizing

unattractive

uncompromising

unenlivened

ungracious

unhappy

☹️

uninteresting

unsympathetic

untoward

unwelcome

unwished

violent

yearning

glooming

subfusc

unappetising

unlikable

mirky

unwished-for

gloomful

tenebrious

uncheerful

unsweet

angry

😠

dreich

annoyed

annoying

arid

bad

👎

bitter

blackened

cheerless

clouded

darkling

darksome

depressing

dim

disgusting

dispiriting

dreadful

dull

earnest

ferocious

frightful

frowning

😦

funereal

furious

gruff

hard

hard-hearted

heroic

hideous

horrible

horrific

inconsiderate

joyless

longing

menacing

mirthless

morbid

murky

pathetic

pity

quiet

repulsive

resolute

sable

saturnine

scowl

seamy

shocking

sombre

strict

sulky

sunless

terrifying

tightlipped

touching

tough

tragic

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɪm/

Etymology

From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).