grim

/ɡɹˈɪm/ · 1 syllable

Meaning

adjective

1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
   “grim determination”
2. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
   “ghastly wounds”
3. harshly ironic or sinister
   “black humor”
4. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie
   “a dour, self-sacrificing life”
5. filled with melancholy and despondency
   “gloomy at the thought of what he had to face”
6. causing dejection
   “a blue day”

Synonyms for grim

• inexorable
• relentless
• stern
• unappeasable
• unforgiving
• unrelenting
• implacable
• ghastly
• grisly
• gruesome
• macabre
• sick
• alarming
• black
• mordant
• sarcastic
• dour
• forbidding
• unpleasant
• gloomy
• blue
• depressed
• dispirited
• down
• downcast
• downhearted
• down in the mouth
• low
• low-spirited
• dejected
• dark
• dingy
• disconsolate
• dismal
• sorry
• drab
• drear
• dreary
• depressing

Words that rhyme with grim

• trim
• dim
• skim
• rim
• limb
• swim
• prim
• brim
• hymn
• slim
• limn
• prelim
• vim
• whim
• forelimb
• gym
• patronym
• pseudonym
• shim
• synonym
• bihm
• brimm
• chiarnim
• clim
• crim
• crimm
• flim
• grimme
• haradim
• him