Word Meanings

grim

adjective

1. 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

2. Cold and forbidding:

austere, bleak, dour, hard, harsh, severe, stark. See attitude, hot

3. Shockingly repellent:

ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre. See beautiful