Dictionary Check: grim

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"grim" is a valid word!

Scrabble 7 points
Words with Friends 9 points

Definition

adjective

not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

Example: "grim determination"
Synonyms:
inexorable relentless stern unappeasable unforgiving unrelenting
adjective

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

Example: "ghastly wounds"
Synonyms:
ghastly grisly gruesome macabre sick
adjective

harshly ironic or sinister

Example: "black humor"
Synonyms:
black mordant
adjective

harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

Example: "a dour, self-sacrificing life"
Synonyms:
dour forbidding
adjective

filled with melancholy and despondency

Example: "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
Synonyms:
gloomy blue depressed dispirited down downcast downhearted down in the mouth
adjective

causing dejection

Example: "a blue day"
Synonyms:
blue dark dingy disconsolate dismal gloomy sorry drab

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