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Another word for grim

grim Synonyms

grim

modif.

Sullen
crabbed, sour, repellent, crusty, gloomy, intractable, sulky, morose, somber, sullen, splenetic, churlish, forbidding, glum, grumpy, scowling, grouchy, dour, glowering, dogged, stubborn, cantankerous.
Antonyms happy*, cheerful, gay.
Stern
austere, strict, harsh; see severe 1.
Relentless
unrelenting, implacable, inexorable; see severe 2, wicked 2.

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Another word for grim

adjective

Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will:
adamant, adamantine, brassbound, die-hard, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbendable, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding. Idiom: stubborn as a mule (or ox). See resist
Cold and forbidding:
austere, bleak, dour, hard, harsh, severe, stark. See attitude, hot
Shockingly repellent:
ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre. See beautiful

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Brady and Elise exchanged a grim look.
If she lived, Hilden wouldn't look as grim as he did.
Anne was a grim, sullen woman, frankly sensual, but as wellmeaning as ignorance and vindictiveness would allow her to be.
It was a grim lot that gathered for supper that night outside the ring of firelight.
His mouth was grim when he spoke.

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