Definition of grim

"grim" in the adjective sense

1. grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting

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"

2. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick

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"

3. black, grim, mordant

harshly ironic or sinister

"black humor"

"a grim joke"

"grim laughter"

"fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

4. dour, forbidding, grim

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

5. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down, downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spirited

filled with melancholy and despondency

"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"

6. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, dreary

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"

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Quotations for grim

O comfort-killing Night, image of hell!
Dim register and notary of shame!
Black stage for tragedies and murders fell!
Vast, sin-concealing chaos! nurse of blame!
Blind, muffled bawd! dark harbor for defame!
Grim cave of death! whispering conspirator,
With close-tongued treason and the ravisher! [ William Shakespeare ]

Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
Bears a command in it; though thy tackle's torn,
Thou showest a noble vessel. [ William Shakespeare ]

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front...
He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber,
To the lascivious pleasing of a lute. [ William Shakespeare, Richard III ]

Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe. [ Milton ]

Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair; and at their heels, a huge infectious troop of pale distemperatures and foes to life. [ William Shakespeare ]

Dreams are the bright creatures of poem and legend, who sport on the earth in the night season, and melt away with the first beam of the sun, which lights grim care and stern reality on their daily pilgrimage through the world. [ Dickens ]

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety, - all this rust of life, ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which one is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which it runs. [ Beecher ]

grim in Scrabble®

The word grim is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 7

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grim in Words With Friends™

The word grim is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 9

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Word Growth involving grim

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