Dictionary Entry

grim

grim is a 4-letter English word with 7 senses as adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 9 · 7 senses

Definitions

1comparative
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
2adjective
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
"ghastly wounds"
"the grim aftermath of the bombing"
Synonyms
ghastly grisly gruesome macabre sick
3adjective
causing dejection
"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
Synonyms
blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy sorry
4adjective
filled with melancholy and despondency
"gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
"gloomy predictions"
Synonyms
blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted gloomy low
5adjective
not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
"grim determination"
"grim necessity"
Synonyms
inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting
6adjective
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance- J.M.Barrie
"a dour, self-sacrificing life"
"a forbidding scowl"
Synonyms
dour forbidding
7adjective
harshly ironic or sinister
"black humor"
"a grim joke"
Synonyms
black mordant

Synonyms

ghastly grisly gruesome macabre sick blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal drab drear dreary gloomy sorry depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted low inexorable relentless stern

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Common word forms

grimed grimes grimly grimful griming grimmer grimmest grimness

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