The Meaning of grim

• (Compar.) Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

Synonyms

down(p) , dispirited , downcast , intransigent , brutal , exacting , severe , forbidding , persistent , austere , dismal , dark , sick , disconsolate , black , grisly , low , unrelenting , down in the mouth , stern , blue , unappeasable , gruesome , macabre , downhearted , mordant , stark , dour , adamantine , strict , relentless , unforgiving , sorry , gloomy , drab , ghastly , depressed , dingy , inexorable , dreary , drear , low-spirited , adamant , nauseous , wan , disgusted , pale , charnel , demented , sepulchral , unbalanced , pallid , disturbed , brainsick , sickish , ill , nauseated , sick(p) , unhinged , fed up(p) , mad , crazy , queasy , sick of(p) , tired of(p) , blackened , opprobrious , bootleg , black-market , disgraceful , calamitous , fateful , smuggled , inglorious , dim , pitch-dark , fatal , pitch-black , contraband , erosive , shameful , disastrous , smutty , corrosive , ignominious , vitriolic , bleak , caustic , sinister , ominous , pertinacious , baleful , sullen , dogged , moody , threatening , glum , minatory , glowering , sour , saturnine , tenacious , menacing , unyielding , morose , minacious , blueish , non-white , gloomful , raunchy , bluish , risque , dirty , gamey , olive-drab , lamentable , muddied , juicy , sulky , bad , meritless , good-for-naught , gamy , good-for-nothing , colored , naughty , unconsolable , benighted , sad , muddy , sober , gentle , grubby , grungy , dark-skinned , aristocratic , inconsolable , racy , regretful , somber , spicy , blue-blooded , puritanical , no-count , no-account , grimy , coloured , puritanic , aristocratical , no-good , deplorable , pitiful , patrician , profane , blasphemous , sombre , glooming , blue(a) , distressing , obscure , begrimed , implacable

Antonyms

unsarcastic , elated , pleasant , unalarming , cheerful , placable

Homophones

grimm , grimme

Rhymes

bihm , brim , brimm , chimb , clim , crim , crimm , dim , flim , forelimb , grimm , grimme , gym , haradim , him , hymn , im , imm , jim , kibbutzim , kim , kimm , klim , klym , krim , kym , lim , limb , mckim , mim , patronym , pimm , prelim , prim , primm , pseudonym , pymm , rim , shim , sim , simm , skim , slim , swim , synonym , timm , timme , trim , trimm , vim , whim , yim , zim