- stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
- of a sinister or ghastly character: a grim joke.
- having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air: a grim man but a just one; a grim countenance.
- fierce, savage, or cruel: War is a grim business.
- unpleasant or repellant: Scrubbing toilets is a grim task that no one likes doing.
- stern; resolute
- harsh or formidable in manner or appearance
- harshly ironic or sinister
- cruel, severe, or ghastly
- fierce
- unpleasant; disagreeable
- to hold very firmly or resolutely
