grim

Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.

Đồng nghĩa: bleak, harsh, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful, brutal, callous, cold, cold-eyed, cruel, dour, flint-hearted, forbidding, frosty, grim, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, harsh, humorless, icy, iron-hearted, insensate, insensitive, marble-hearted, rigorous, rockhearted, severe, stern, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, strict, tough, unsympathetic, unmoved

Rigid and unrelenting.

His grim determination enabled him to win.

Đồng nghĩa: overwhelming, unbending, adamantine, concrete, firm, granitic, grim, hard, inflexible, lithic, resistant, rigid, robust, solid, stiff, stout, sturdy, stony, tough, unbending, unyielding, bateless, grim, incontestable, inexorable, invincible, irresistible, overpowering, overwhelming, potent, puissant, persistent, relentless, unrelenting, unremitting, unstoppable, unyielding

Ghastly or sinister.

A grim castle overshadowed the village.

Đồng nghĩa: forboding, malevolent, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, demonic, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, naughty, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, chilling, creepy, eldritch, freakish, frightening, grim, offputting, scary, sinister, spooky, unsettling

Disgusting; gross.

– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!

Đồng nghĩa: foul, loathsome, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, bum, vile, demonic, disagreeable, disgusting, distasteful, foul, rancid, fulsome, gooey, grim, gro, grody, gross, grotty, harsh, loathsome, munted, nasty, nauseous, offensive, obnoxious, obscene, rank, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, scabrous, sickening, strident, unpleasant

(obsolete)Fierce, cruel, furious.

Đồng nghĩa: ferocious, raging, savage, violent, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk, big mad, blood-boiling, boiling mad, butthurt, cheesed off, choleric, cranky, cross, enraged, fit to be tied, frustrated, fuming, furibund, furious, fury, glimflashy, grim, hopping mad, ill-natured, incensed, infuriated, irate, ireful, ired, irritated, little mad, livid, mad, mad as a bear with a sore head, miffed, offended, pathetic, pissed off, p'd off, pissed, pissy, raging, ready to be tied, screwfaced, seething, spitting chips, splenetic, sore, steaming, up on one's ear, upset, vexed, waxy, wode, wrathful, wroth, zowerswopped, ferocious, fierce, furious, grim, incessive, infuriate, rabid, raging, savage, volatile, wild, animalistic, barbarian, barbaric, barbarious, barbarous, brutal, brutish, Gothic, Gothlike, grim, heathen, heathenish, heathenly, heathenous, incivil, pagan, savage, tenebrose, truculent, uncivil, uncivilized, uncouth, uncultivated, uncultured, uplandish, wolfish

(rare, transitive)To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

(Multicultural London English, dated, slang)(MLE, slang, probably a fashionable word around 2006, now dated) A promiscuous woman.

Đồng nghĩa: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella, bop, chippy, cocotte, cockslut, cockwhore, crumpet, cum dumpster, cum guzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, Cyprian, demimondaine, doxy, drab, eager beaver, Essex girl, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, fuckstress, Fulham virgin, geebag, giglot, gillian, gill, good-time girl, grim, grisette, harlot, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoe, hoochie mama, hoochie, hood rat, ho, hussy, jade, jay, jillflirt, lady of light virtue, LBFM, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loose woman, lorette, mab, manizer, minx, moll, mort wap-apace, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, puta, puzzel, quean, Quicumque vult, quiff, rig, scag, scrubber, skank, skettle, sket, skit, slag, slapper, slattern, sloven, slutbag, slut, stale, streel, strumpet, sweet cheeks, tartlet, tart, thotty, thot, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trollop, trull, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, wench, whore

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Anger, wrath.

(countable, obsolete, uncountable)A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.