grim

Adjective
  1. Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty (synset 301789850)
    "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
    similar to: implacable - incapable of being placated
    same as: inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
  2. Shockingly repellent;
    Inspiring horror (synset 300197276)
    "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"
    similar to: alarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
    same as: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sick
  3. Harshly ironic or sinister (synset 302086637)
    "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
    similar to: sarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
    same as: black, mordant
  4. Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance (synset 301808137)
    "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"
    similar to: unpleasant - offensive or disagreeable; causing discomfort or unhappiness
    same as: dour, forbidding
  5. Filled with melancholy and despondency (synset 300707060)
    "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
    similar to: dejected - affected or marked by low spirits
    same as: blue, depressed, dispirited, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low, low-spirited
  6. Causing dejection (synset 300365961)
    "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"
    similar to: cheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
    same as: blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, drab, drear, dreary, gloomy, sorry

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