not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; grim determination; grim necessity; Russias final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty; relentless persecution; the stern demands of parenthood

[ Syn: inexorable , relentless , stern , unappeasable , unforgiving , unrelenting ]

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

[ Syn: ghastly , grisly , gruesome , macabre , sick ]

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

[ Syn: black , mordant ]

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

[ Syn: dour , forbidding ]

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

[ Syn: gloomy , blue , depressed , dispirited , down , downcast , downhearted , down in the mouth , low , low-spirited ]

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

[ Syn: blue , dark , dingy , disconsolate , dismal , gloomy , sorry , drab , drear , dreary ]