- grim
- adj1. stern, uncompromising, unyielding, unbending, inflexible, unamenable; firm, tenacious, intractable, adamant; obstinate, steadfast, obdurate, headstrong; unrelenting, relentless, inexorable, implacable; harsh, hard, severe, iron; resolute, determined, decided, set, strong-willed, dead set; indomitable, dogged, indefatigable; unflinching, unwavering, unshaken, unfaltering, unshrinking.2. dreadful, dire, direful, dark, black, baleful, terrible; terrifying, frightful, dread, appalling; alarming, distressing, harrowing, rending; redoubtable, fearsome, formidable, awful; horrible, horrid, horrendous, monstrous, atrocious; hideous, ghastly, eerie, grotesque, macabre, grisly, gruesome, unspeakable; outrageous, shocking, enormous, flagrant; nefarious, heinous, flagitious, villainous; infamous, notorious, odious; wicked, evil, vile, iniquitous, Archaic. facinorous; abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repugnant, loathsome, despicable, detestable, hateful.3. surly, sullen, sulky, somber, sour, morose; crusty, crabby, cantankerous, churlish; cross, testy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, petulant; forbidding, threatening, menacing, sinister, lowering; gloomy, dismal, dreary, Literary. drear, miserable; wretched, abject, squalid, sorry, destitute.4. fierce, savage, ferocious, vicious, fell, truculent; bestial, brutish, feral, ferine, tigerish, wolfish, lupine; brutal, violent, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, hellish, Tartarian, Hunnish, Gothic, Vandalic; murderous, homicidal, slaughterous, bloodthirsty, sanguinary; sadistic, animalistic, cannibalistic, fiendish, ghoulish, ogreish; diabolical, demonic, devilish, satanic; pitiless, merciless, heartless, cruel, ruthless; hard-hearted, cold-hearted, stony-hearted, marble-hearted, cold-blooded.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.