Hypertext Webster Gateway: "grim"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Grim \Grim\, a. [Compar. {Grimmer} (-mer); superl. {Grimmest}.]
[AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv. to G. & D. grimmig, Dan.
grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr, G. gram grief, as adj.,
hostile; cf. Gr. ?, a crushing sound, ? to neigh.]
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
cruel; frightful; horrible.
Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
The ridges of grim war. --Milton.
Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
sour.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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