Synonyms

relentless stern inexorable unforgiving unrelenting unappeasable

Examples

"grim determination" "grim necessity" "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty" "relentless persecution" "the stern demands of parenthood

Synonyms

ghastly gruesome macabre grisly

Examples

"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"

Synonyms

mordant black

Examples

"black humor" "a grim joke" "grim laughter" "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

Synonyms

dark depressing disconsolate dismal dispiriting gloomy blue

Examples

"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"

Synonyms

forbidding dour

Examples

"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

Synonyms

gloomy darkening

Examples

"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"