grim (
http://definr.com/grim)
adj 1: 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 [syn:
inexorable,
relentless,
stern,
unappeasable,
unforgiving,
unrelenting]
2: 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" [syn:
ghastly,
grisly,
gruesome,
macabre]
3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
"grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...
to savage mordant wit" [syn:
black,
mordant]
4: 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" [syn:
blue,
dark,
depressing,
disconsolate,
dismal,
dispiriting,
gloomy]
5: 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 [syn:
dour,
forbidding]
6: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at
the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions";
"a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"
[syn:
gloomy]