grim — ► ADJECTIVE (grimmer, grimmest) 1) very serious or gloomy; forbidding. 2) horrifying, depressing, or unappealing. ● like (or for) grim death Cf. ↑like grim death DERIVATIVES … English terms dictionary
grim — [adj] hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance austere, barbarous, bleak, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed*, cruel, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, gloomy, glowering, glum,… … New thesaurus
gloomy — [[t]glu͟ːmi[/t]] gloomier, gloomiest 1) ADJ GRADED If a place is gloomy, it is almost dark so that you cannot see very well. Inside it s gloomy after all that sunshine... All the electric lamps in this huge gloomy church were extinguished. 2) ADJ … English dictionary
grim — {{11}}grim (adj.) O.E. grimm fierce, cruel, savage, dire, painful, from P.Gmc. *grimmaz (Cf. O.S., O.Fris., O.H.G., Ger. grimm, O.N. grimmr, Swed. grym fierce, furious ), from PIE *ghrem angry, perhaps imitative of the sound of rumbling thunder… … Etymology dictionary
grim — adjective 1) his grim expression Syn: stern, forbidding, uninviting, unsmiling, dour, formidable, harsh, steely, flinty, stony; cross, churlish, surly, sour, ill tempered; fierce, ferocious … Thesaurus of popular words
gloomy — adjective 1) a gloomy room Syn: dark, shadowy, sunless, dim, somber, dingy, dismal, dreary, murky, unwelcoming, cheerless, comfortless, funereal; literary Stygian Ant: bright … Thesaurus of popular words
grim — adjective (grimmer; grimmest) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grimm; akin to Old High German grimm fierce, Greek chremetizein to neigh Date: before 12th century 1. fierce in disposition or action ; savage 2. a. stern or forbidding in… … New Collegiate Dictionary
grim — adjective 1) his grim expression Syn: stern, forbidding, uninviting, unsmiling, dour, formidable 2) grim secrets Syn: dreadful, ghastly, horrible, terrible, awful … Synonyms and antonyms dictionary
grim — Synonyms and related words: Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, affording no hope, alarming, anguished, anxious, apathetic, appalling, astounding, astringent, atrocious, austere, authoritarian, awe inspiring, awesome, awful, baneful,… … Moby Thesaurus
gloomy — Synonyms and related words: Acheronian, Acherontic, Cassandra like, Cassandran, Cassandrian, Cimmerian, Stygian, acheronian, acherontic, apocalyptic, bad, baleful, baneful, black, bleak, blue, bodeful, boding, caliginous, castellatus, cheerless,… … Moby Thesaurus
