adj satadj.allnot to be placated or appeased or moved by entreatySynset:inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting
Examples:- grim determination
- grim necessity
- Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty
- relentless persecution
- the stern demands of parenthood
Antonyms:placable
Derivationally Related Form:relentlessnessinexorablenesssternnessgrimnessinexorability
Inherited Hypernyms:grim
Similar to:implacable
adj satadj.allshockingly repellent; inspiring horrorSynset:ghastly grisly gruesome macabre sick
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
- macabre tortures conceived by madmen
Antonyms:unalarming
Derivationally Related Form:ghastlinessgrimnessgruesomeness
Inherited Hypernyms:ghastly
Similar to:alarming
adj satadj.allharshly ironic or sinisterSynset:black mordant
Examples:- black humor
- a grim joke
- grim laughter
- fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
Antonyms:unsarcastic
Derivationally Related Form:grimness
Inherited Hypernyms:black
Similar to:sarcastic
adj satadj.allharshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearanceSynset:dour forbidding
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
Antonyms:pleasant
Derivationally Related Form:grimness
Inherited Hypernyms:dour
Similar to:unpleasant
adj satadj.allfilled with melancholy and despondencySynset:blue depressed dispirited down down in the mouth downcast downhearted gloomy low low-spirited
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
- 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
Antonyms:elated
Derivationally Related Form:downheartednessdispiritednesslow-spiritednesslownessgloominess
Inherited Hypernyms:gloomy
Similar to:dejected
adj satadj.allcausing dejectionSynset:blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy sorry
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
Antonyms:cheerful
Derivationally Related Form:dreariness
Inherited Hypernyms:blue
Similar to:cheerless depressing uncheerful