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G0271100 (grĭm)adj. grim·mer, grim·mest 1. a. Discouraging or depressing: The business news has been grim lately.b. Dismal; gloomy: a grim, rainy day.2. a. Stern or forbidding: The judge was grim when handing out the sentence.b. Repellent or horrifying: the grim task of searching for bodies in the rubble. See Synonyms at ghastly.3. Unrelenting or uncompromising: grim determination.

[Middle English, from Old English, fierce, severe.]

grim′ly adv.grim′ness n.

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(ɡrɪm) adj, grimmer or grimmest1. stern; resolute: grim determination. 2. harsh or formidable in manner or appearance3. harshly ironic or sinister: grim laughter. 4. cruel, severe, or ghastly: a grim accident. 5. archaic or poetic fierce: a grim warrior. 6. informal unpleasant; disagreeable7. hold on like grim death to hold very firmly or resolutely[Old English grimm; related to Old Norse grimmr, Old High German grimm savage, Greek khremizein to neigh] ˈgrimly adv ˈgrimness n

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adj. grim•mer, grim•mest. 1. stern and admitting of no compromise; harsh; unyielding: grim determination. 2. of a sinister or ghastly character: a grim joke. 3. having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air: a grim countenance. 4. fierce, savage, or cruel: War is a grim business. 5. Informal. unpleasant. [before 900; Middle English, Old English; c. Old Saxon, Old High German grimm, Old Norse grimmr] grim′ly, adv. grim′ness, n.

Thesaurus

Adj.	1.	grim - 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"inexorable, relentless, unappeasable, unrelenting, unforgiving, sternimplacable - incapable of being placated; "an implacable enemy"
	2.	grim - 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"ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickalarming - frightening because of an awareness of danger
	3.	grim - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"mordant, blacksarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds
	4.	grim - 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.Barrieforbidding, dourunpleasant - disagreeable to the senses, to the mind, or feelings ; "an unpleasant personality"; "unpleasant repercussions"; "unpleasant odors"
	5.	grim - filled with melancholy and despondency ; "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"down in the mouth, downhearted, low-spirited, gloomy, downcast, dispirited, blue, depressed, down, lowdejected - affected or marked by low spirits; "is dejected but trying to look cheerful"
	6.	grim - 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"drear, dismal, dreary, disconsolate, dingy, gloomy, sorry, drab, blue, darkcheerless, depressing, uncheerful - causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy; "the economic outlook is depressing"; "something cheerless about the room"; "a moody and uncheerful person"; "an uncheerful place"

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adjective1. terrible, shocking, severe, harsh, forbidding, horrible, formidable, sinister, ghastly, hideous, gruesome (slang), grisly, horrid, frightful, godawful They painted a grim picture of growing crime.2. dismal, depressing, bleak, gloomy, hopeless, dreary, sombre, joyless, cheerless, comfortless the tower blocks on the city's grim edges3. stern, severe, harsh, grave, solemn, forbidding Her expression was grim and unpleasant.
stern kind, happy, soft, gentle, pleasant, sympathetic, cheerful, benign, amiable, genial4. hard, tough, harsh, unpleasant, bleak Things were pretty grim for a time.
hard easy, pleasant5. merciless, fierce, cruel, ruthless, ferocious, resolute, unrelenting, implacable, unyielding a grim fight to the death

grim

adjective1. 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.2. Cold and forbidding:austere, bleak, dour, hard, harsh, severe, stark.3. Shockingly repellent:ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre.

Translations

不愉快的严厉的严酷的令人害怕的冷酷的

grim

(grim) adjective1. horrible; very unpleasant. The soldiers had a grim task looking for bodies in the wrecked houses. 令人害怕的，讨厌的 2. angry; fierce-looking; not cheerful. The boss looks a bit grim this morning. 严厉的，冷酷的，不愉快的 3. stubborn, unyielding. grim determination.坚强的ˈgrimness noun顽强ˈgrimly adverbShe held on grimly to the hope that there would be survivors.坚强地like grim death with great determination. 坚强不屈

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hang on like grim death

To clutch something very tightly, usually to avoid falling. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. After the ladder tipped over, I hung on like grim death so that I didn't fall off the roof.See also: death, grim, hang, like, on

paint a (some kind of) picture of (something)

To give an elaborate or detailed description of something that portrays it in a specific way. The board meeting painted a pretty grim picture of the company's future. Jonathan always paints an idyllic picture of our childhood, glossing over the bad memories of our father.See also: kind, of, paint, picture

Grim Reaper

Death, as personified by a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe. She's been in three really terrible car accidents but has miraculously avoided the Grim Reaper.See also: grim, reaper

hang on to (someone or something) like grim death

To clutch someone or something very tightly, usually to avoid falling. After the ladder tipped over, I hung on to the roof like grim death so that I didn't fall.See also: death, grim, hang, like, on

hold on to (someone or something) like grim death

To clutch someone or something very tightly, usually to avoid falling. After the ladder tipped over, I held on to the roof like grim death so that I didn't fall.See also: death, grim, hold, like, on

like grim death

With a very tight, intense, and determined grip. After the ladder tipped over, I hung onto the edge of the roof like grim death. Even on the sheerest of cliff faces, there are still small animals and bits of vegetation clung like grim death.See also: death, grim, like

grim reaper

Fig. death. I think I have a few years to go yet before the grim reaper pays me a call.See also: grim, reaper

like grim death

mainly BRITISHIf you hold onto something like grim death, you hold onto it very tightly. I clung to the chain like grim death.See also: death, grim, like

the Grim Reaper

The Grim Reaper is an imaginary character who represents death. He looks like a skeleton, wears a long, black cloak with a hood, and carries a scythe (= tool for cutting grass). By giving away assets while still alive, inheritance tax can be avoided entirely by the time the Grim Reaper calls. They were sitting around, waiting for the Grim Reaper.See also: grim, reaper

like (or for) grim death

with intense determination. 1989 Jonathan Gash Jade Woman Here and there a greenish scumble of vegetation hung on for grim death. See also: death, grim, like

the Grim Reaper

a personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe.See also: grim, reaper

hang on/hold on (to somebody/something) like grim ˈdeath

hold somebody/something very tightly, usually because you are afraid or determined not to let go: As the horse galloped off, you could see poor Sarah hanging on like grim death. ♢ The robbers tried to steal my bag, but I held on to it like grim death.The word grim (= very serious or unpleasant) is often used to describe death.See also: death, grim, hang, hold, like, on

grim reaper, the

Death. This expression is actually a combination of the older grim death, which dates from about 1600, and the artistic depiction of death with a scythe, which began somewhat later. The first appeared in a play by Philip Massinger (1583–1640), The Roman Actor, and also in John Milton’s Paradise Lost (“Before mine eyes in opposition sits Grim Death, my son and foe”). The second appeared in a song from “Des Knaben Wunderhorn” and in Longfellow’s poem, “The Reaper and the Flowers” (“There is a Reaper whose name is Death, and, with his sickle keen”), as well as in earlier but more obscure sources.See also: grim

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adj terrible

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adj dismal

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adj stern

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adj hard

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adj merciless

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adj firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will

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adj cold and forbidding

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adj shockingly repellent

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adj not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

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adj shockingly repellent

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adj harshly ironic or sinister

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adj harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

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adj filled with melancholy and despondency

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adj causing dejection

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