grim - Meaning in Konkani

grim - Meaning in Konkani

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Definitions and Meaning of grim in English

grim adjective

1. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror

   Examples

   • "a grisly murder"
   • "ghastly wounds"
   • "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
   • "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
   • "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
   • "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
   • "the grim task of burying the victims"
2. causing dejection

   Examples

   • "a blue day"
   • "a dark gloomy day"
   • "a disconsolate winter landscape"
   • "a week of rainy depressing weather"
   • "grim rainy weather"
   • "the dark days of the war"
   • "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
3. filled with melancholy and despondency

   Examples

   • "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"
   • "a gloomy silence"
   • "depressed by the loss of his job"
   • "downcast after his defeat"
   • "feeling discouraged and downhearted"
   • "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
   • "gloomy predictions"
   • "lonely and blue in a strange city"
   • "the darkening mood"
   • "took a grim view of the economy"
4. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

   Examples

   • "grim determination"
   • "grim necessity"
   • "relentless persecution"
   • "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"
   • "the stern demands of parenthood"
5. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

   Examples

   • "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"
6. harshly ironic or sinister

   Examples

   • "a grim joke"
   • "black humor"
   • "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
   • "grim laughter"

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