grim

Adjective

• 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
    

• 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
    

• 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.Barrie
    

• harshly ironic or sinister
  • black humor
    
  • a grim joke
    
  • grim laughter
    
  • fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
    

• 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
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  dour , forbidding , black , mordant , ghastly , grisly , gruesome , macabre , sick , inexorable , relentless , stern , unappeasable , unforgiving , unrelenting