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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grim \Grim\ (gr[i^]m), a. [Compar. {Grimmer} (-m[~e]r); superl.
     {Grimmest} (-m[e^]st).] [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.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The ridges of grim war.                  --Milton.
  
     Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
          frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
          sour.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [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";
          "the darkening mood" [syn: {gloomy}, {darkening}]
       [also: {grimmest}, {grimmer}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  293 Moby Thesaurus words for "grim":
     Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, affording no hope,
     alarming, anguished, anxious, apathetic, appalling, astounding,
     astringent, atrocious, austere, authoritarian, awe-inspiring,
     awesome, awful, baneful, barbarous, barfy, beastly, beetle-browed,
     black, black-browed, bleak, bloodthirsty, bored, brutal, brutish,
     bum, cast-iron, certain, cheerless, cheesy, cold, comfortless,
     crappy, creepy, cruel, crummy, dark, dead set, decided, decorous,
     dejected, demanding, demure, depressed, despairing, desperate,
     despondent, determined, dire, direful, dirty, disconsolate,
     discontented, disgusted, dismal, dogged, dour, dread, dreaded,
     dreadful, drear, drearisome, dreary, dumpish, earnest, eerie, evil,
     evil-favored, evil-looking, exacting, exigent, fell, feral,
     ferocious, fiendish, fierce, firm, fixed, flagitious, flinty,
     forbidding, foreboding, forlorn, formal, formidable, frightening,
     frightful, frowning, funebrial, funereal, ghastly, ghoulish,
     gloomy, glowering, glum, godawful, goshawful, grave, gray,
     grim-faced, grim-visaged, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, grum, hairy,
     hard, hard-core, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard-visaged,
     harrowing, harsh, headstrong, heartless, heinous, hideous,
     homicidal, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
     horrifying, humorless, icky, ill-favored, ill-featured,
     ill-looking, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable,
     in bad humor, in despair, inclement, inelastic, inevitable,
     inexorable, infestive, inflexible, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous,
     intractable, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, joyless,
     loathsome, long-faced, lowering, lurid, macabre, melancholy,
     merciless, meticulous, mirthless, miserable, monstrous, moodish,
     moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morbid, morose, mortal, mumpish,
     murderous, nauseated, nauseous, obdurate, obstinate, offensive,
     ominous, out of humor, out of sorts, pitiless, pleasureless,
     prey to malaise, punk, putrid, redoubtable, relentless, repelled,
     repugnant, repulsive, resolute, revolted, revolting, rigid,
     rigorous, rock-ribbed, rotten, rough, rugged, ruthless, sad,
     saturnine, savage, schrecklich, scowling, sedate, serious, set,
     severe, shitty, shocking, sickened, sinister, sober, sober-minded,
     sobersided, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorry, sorryish, staid,
     steadfast, steely, stern, stiff, stinking, stinky, stone-faced,
     stony, straight-faced, strict, stringent, stubborn,
     suffering angst, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, terrific,
     terrifying, thoughtful, tough, tragic, tremendous, triste,
     truculent, unaffected, unalterable, unappeasable, unbending,
     unchangeable, uncheerful, uncheery, uncompromising, uneasy,
     unflinching, unforgiving, unfulfilled, ungentle, ungiving,
     ungratified, unhappy, unhopeful, unjoyful, unmirthful, unmoved,
     unmoving, unprepossessing, unquiet, unrelenting, unsatisfied,
     unsmiling, unsparing, unspeakable, unwavering, unyielding, vicious,
     vindictive, violent, vomity, weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty,
     wicked, without hope, wolfish, wretched, yecchy
  
  

















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