Definition of grim in English:

grim

adjectivegrimmest, grimmer ɡrɪmɡrɪm

1Very serious or gloomy.
his grim expression
他阴冷的表情。
Example sentencesExamples
- Dr. Ashton emerges, a grim expression on his face.
- Half an hour later, the men came home - trying not to look grim and worried.
- Ross watches Alex's long, lean face fall into an expression of grim frustration, and for a moment he feels sorry for him.
- The young man nodded, his expression frozen in grim acceptance.
- But she could see everyone else paying close attention, their expressions slowly becoming more serious and grim.
- Lari's expression turned grim, ‘There is no way to get out of here.’
- His entire demeanor had changed, becoming hardened and grim, determination coupled with a strength that carried him past exhaustion.
- I looked up to see Meredith, her expression grim, staring down at me.
- Charlie's voice was grim, and there was little humour in her joke.
- The statement came shortly after staff at the five-year-old firm, which employs 11,000, arrived for work looking grim as they awaited news.
- She looked up to see his grim expression and immediately sobered.
- Then he'd walked away, looking so grim she'd known something was horribly wrong.
- Andrew entered through a side door to the observation room and stood beside the Doctor, face grim with worry.
- Nick's broad face is now very grim.
- In a brief, grim speech to the nation late on Saturday, the president did not say if he accepted their resignations.
- This time, none of them were laughing; they looked grim and serious.
- Edward is cheerful, albeit in a rather dark way, while Cara is grim and determined.
- "There's been a problem, " Gary explained, his expression grim.
- Lowering the hand holding his cordless phone, Charles walks up to Tyler, a grim expression on his handsome face.
- The headmaster and priest was there, a grim expression on his face.
Synonyms
stern, forbidding, uninviting, unapproachable, aloof, distant
formidable, strict, dour, harsh
steely, flinty, stony
fierce, ferocious, threatening, menacing, mean-looking
cross, churlish, crabbed, surly, sour, ill-tempered, unsmiling
cruel, ruthless, merciless
British informal boot-faced
1. 1.1 Depressing or worrying to consider.
  使人沮丧的；令人担忧的
  the grim news of the murder
  关于谋杀的令人担忧的消息。
  Example sentencesExamples
  With these grim figures to consider, it is expected that Carlow would be one of the first test centres in the country to benefit from any forthcoming additional resources.
  This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts.
  The grim discovery of the body was made by a farmer yesterday morning.
  The war was a grim reminder of the inhumanity of man to man.
  Those are just some of the grim realities that illustrate the sorry state of education in black America.
  This means the prognosis is probably not as grim as conventional wisdom would have us believe.
  The disease carries a grim prognosis - only 14 percent of patients survive 5 years.
  And like most contemporary science fiction it offers a fairly grim view of the future.
  Back in the summer, the prospects for Everton's season were looking pretty grim.
  If this all sounds unrelentingly grim I promise you it isn't.
  The 1,500-strong work force at the Gipsy Lane plant were given the grim news yesterday.
  The employment outlook is grim for front-end staff with basic web design and development qualifications.
  Even when climate change is removed from the frame the picture remains grim.
  Some of the children will also be dressed in a black T-shirts as grim reminder of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians who died.
  His choice of language was a bit doom-laden, but his take on the current oil situation appears to justify his pretty grim view of what's in store.
  But thankfully things are not as grim as they seem.
  However, Health Protection Agency Figures dating back to 1995 paint a far more grim picture.
  Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common.
  But once they leave school, the outlook for many school dropouts remains grim.
  At first sight, the table makes for rather grim reading.
  The alternative - settling for economic, cultural and demographic stagnation - is too grim to consider.
  Synonyms
  dreadful, dire, ghastly, horrible, horrendous, horrid, terrible, awful, appalling, frightful, shocking, unspeakable, atrocious, harrowing
  grisly, gruesome, hideous, disgusting, revolting, gory, macabre, morbid
  depressing, distressing, upsetting, worrying, concerning, unpleasant, disagreeable
2. 1.2 (of humour) lacking genuine levity; black.
  （情绪）低落的；不快乐的；郁闷的
  some moments of grim humour
  闷闷不乐的时刻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  But somehow, that sort of irreverent, grim humor doesn't seem appropriate.
  Most of us use grim humour to cope with life's dark side.
  Although it took 13 reconstructive surgeries in six years to put her back together, Bray cultivated a certain grim sense of humor about her injuries.
  Sitting in the shade of the fig trees in Westminster's bustling Portcullis House last week, Ian Cawsey recalled with grim humour the moment when he almost died.
  One columnist who manages both to make sense of the situation and to wring some humor, however grim, out of it, is the gifted Diana West.
  Synonyms
  black, dark, mirthless, bleak, cynical, fatalistic
2(especially of a place) unattractive or forbidding.
rows of grim, dark housing developments
一排排长长的令人感到压抑的、灰暗的新建住宅楼。
Example sentencesExamples
- The first draft I write by hand in my local library, where the room is so grim there is nothing else to distract me, so I concentrate on the writing just to get out of there.
- She saw a dark, grim street with drunks falling over their own feet and puking down the gutters.
- The vote of a single mum on a grim estate is currently worth a tiny fraction of the vote of a lawn-mowing Middle England mum in Basildon.
- In that film too, the Berlin I saw was a grim city, divided into east and west by a wall topped with barbed wire.
- Ever wondered how the NHS struggles by in the grotty, run-down and ultimately grim areas of this country?
- Arriving in the UK as a refugee, she and her mother ended up on a grim estate in Mitcham, Surrey.
- Bedford used to be a depressed, grim farming town, with nothing on offer for the weary traveller - just a lone truck stop and a café.
- Those rooms are grim, but nothing out of the ordinary.
- They live in a house in the most unpromising of territory - a grim estate on the Charlton-Woolwich boundary - yet the interior of their home is fantastic.
- I walked on all the way to Dartford, which is a bit grim to be honest.
- The tiny port is dominated by a grim stronghold castle, previously home to the pirates who terrorised the coast for centuries.
- When I first started reporting on Cuba more than a decade ago, the island was a grim place.
- They can't blame the frustrations of inner-city poverty for their actions, or the bleakness of life on a grim estate.
- The rear of Selfridges is a grim place, just a service road lined by characterless buildings, and totally unlike the elegance of the imposing frontage.
- An occasional oil-lamp burned in the upper stories of the grim tenements, above black shop-fronts.
- If I can be so bold as to generalise, relief centres are as grim as they are hectic.
- I had an image of a grim, gloomy hospital with stern faced staff.
- It is a grim suburb of Wishaw, composed of high-rise tower blocks and a network of lower-level blocks of flats, narrow alleyways and parking lots.
- A couple of blocks away from the muzak and smooth elevators of the mall, I arrived at a grim neighbourhood of porn cinemas and shuffling vagrants.
Synonyms
bleak, dreary, dismal, dingy, wretched, miserable, disheartening, depressing, cheerless, comfortless, joyless, gloomy, sombre, uninviting, drab
informal God-awful
1. 2.1 Unrelentingly harsh.
  few creatures thrive in this grim and hostile land
  很少有生命能在这片条件极其恶劣的土地上生长繁衍。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Arizona is one of the three poorest states in the US and Flagstaff reflects that grim economic reality.
  The lives of agricultural and urban workers would have been just as grim.
  Others are angry but matter-of-fact about a lifestyle that seems unbearably grim to the outsider.
  These tenant farmers often lived grim and bleak existences.
  The climate of Kolyma is extreme, even compared to the grim background of eastern Siberia.
  For many it was the hope of escaping the misery of their grim working lives that led them to sign up.
  My goal was to record the grim daily lives of a people who had endured a half century of warfare.
  There are moments that will break your heart with their grim, bleak realism.
  If you want to shape up, but running and rock climbing leave you cold, maybe it's time to consider something less grim and solitary.
  Rural life is shown as harsh and grim where the ablest and younger peasants sought to escape to the factories in the cities.
  Synonyms
  merciless, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, savage, vicious, brutal, harsh, severe

Phrases

the Grim Reaper

A personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe.
he met the Grim Reaper a decade later
Example sentencesExamples
- Crucially, no-one else had died in Emmerdale over Christmas so it was odds-on the Grim Reaper was sharpening his scythe for someone come the turn of New Year.

like (or for) grim death

With great determination.
坚韧不拔地
we had to hold on like grim death
我们必须顽强地坚持下去。
Example sentencesExamples
- They held on like grim death to their advantage for eight minutes and actually came close to adding another score.
- Moments later they were hanging on for grim death.
- I couldn't hear a thing - I just held on for grim death.
- I have seen people clinging on for grim death as they were almost tossed over the side.
- People were hanging on for grim death as I looked around for the sick bag!
- They follow a proven formula: you get a job, you then get a mortgage and you then hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage.
- If you dare look outside while you are clinging on for grim death, you see the bus is a few inches from the dawdling car in front, the airhorn urging the driver to move it, or move over.
- Argentina have won most of the plaudits so far, and they were certainly impressive with their movement, pace and skill, but they were also hanging on for grim death against the Ivory Coast at the end.
- It would have made for marvelous photos, except that I was too busy hanging on to my horse for grim death.
- ‘Three of us clung on for grim death and we survived,’ said Paul McGeough of Australia ‘s Sydney Morning Herald.’

Derivatives

grimness

noun ˈɡrɪmnəsˈɡrɪmnəs

Rather than go out and spend in the shops, consumers are packing up and going on holiday to escape the growing grimness of life in Britain.
Example sentencesExamples
- My hostel, on first encounter, had an institutional grimness defying the more immediate forms of description.
- If this is the state of affairs after the country's fervent embrace of capitalism in 1989, one can only imagine the grimness that prevailed under Soviet rule.
- Russians can have a seriousness that borders on grimness.
- Some of the elite recognised that high art could compensate for the deficits of capitalist society; beautiful paintings could make the grimness of everyday life a little easier to bear.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm.

The meaning of grim has weakened over the centuries from its first appearance in Old English as ‘fierce or cruel’. To hang (or cling) on like grim death dates from the mid 19th century, but the use of grim for the forbidding appearance of the figure of Death is recorded much earlier. The Grim Reaper (mid 19th century) is a representation of Death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a long scythe.

Rhymes

bedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, Grimm, gym, him, hymn, Jim, Kim, limb, limn, nim, prim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim

Definition of grim in US English:

grim

adjectiveɡrɪmɡrim

1Forbidding or uninviting.
严厉的；令人生畏的；不吸引人的；令人不快的
his grim expression
他阴冷的表情。
long rows of grim, dark housing developments
一排排长长的令人感到压抑的、灰暗的新建住宅楼。
Example sentencesExamples
- In a brief, grim speech to the nation late on Saturday, the president did not say if he accepted their resignations.
- "There's been a problem, " Gary explained, his expression grim.
- I looked up to see Meredith, her expression grim, staring down at me.
- Lari's expression turned grim, ‘There is no way to get out of here.’
- The young man nodded, his expression frozen in grim acceptance.
- Half an hour later, the men came home - trying not to look grim and worried.
- His entire demeanor had changed, becoming hardened and grim, determination coupled with a strength that carried him past exhaustion.
- Lowering the hand holding his cordless phone, Charles walks up to Tyler, a grim expression on his handsome face.
- Dr. Ashton emerges, a grim expression on his face.
- Edward is cheerful, albeit in a rather dark way, while Cara is grim and determined.
- Charlie's voice was grim, and there was little humour in her joke.
- Ross watches Alex's long, lean face fall into an expression of grim frustration, and for a moment he feels sorry for him.
- The statement came shortly after staff at the five-year-old firm, which employs 11,000, arrived for work looking grim as they awaited news.
- Then he'd walked away, looking so grim she'd known something was horribly wrong.
- But she could see everyone else paying close attention, their expressions slowly becoming more serious and grim.
- The headmaster and priest was there, a grim expression on his face.
- Nick's broad face is now very grim.
- This time, none of them were laughing; they looked grim and serious.
- Andrew entered through a side door to the observation room and stood beside the Doctor, face grim with worry.
- She looked up to see his grim expression and immediately sobered.
Synonyms
stern, forbidding, uninviting, unapproachable, aloof, distant
1. 1.1 (of humor) lacking genuine levity; mirthless; black.
  （情绪）低落的；不快乐的；郁闷的
  some moments of grim humor
  闷闷不乐的时刻。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most of us use grim humour to cope with life's dark side.
  But somehow, that sort of irreverent, grim humor doesn't seem appropriate.
  Sitting in the shade of the fig trees in Westminster's bustling Portcullis House last week, Ian Cawsey recalled with grim humour the moment when he almost died.
  One columnist who manages both to make sense of the situation and to wring some humor, however grim, out of it, is the gifted Diana West.
  Although it took 13 reconstructive surgeries in six years to put her back together, Bray cultivated a certain grim sense of humor about her injuries.
  Synonyms
  black, dark, mirthless, bleak, cynical, fatalistic
2. 1.2 Depressing or worrying to consider.
  使人沮丧的；令人担忧的
  the grim news of the murder
  关于谋杀的令人担忧的消息。
  Example sentencesExamples
  Back in the summer, the prospects for Everton's season were looking pretty grim.
  Some of the children will also be dressed in a black T-shirts as grim reminder of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians who died.
  The alternative - settling for economic, cultural and demographic stagnation - is too grim to consider.
  If this all sounds unrelentingly grim I promise you it isn't.
  The disease carries a grim prognosis - only 14 percent of patients survive 5 years.
  The grim discovery of the body was made by a farmer yesterday morning.
  Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common.
  This means the prognosis is probably not as grim as conventional wisdom would have us believe.
  However, Health Protection Agency Figures dating back to 1995 paint a far more grim picture.
  With these grim figures to consider, it is expected that Carlow would be one of the first test centres in the country to benefit from any forthcoming additional resources.
  This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts.
  But thankfully things are not as grim as they seem.
  Even when climate change is removed from the frame the picture remains grim.
  And like most contemporary science fiction it offers a fairly grim view of the future.
  Those are just some of the grim realities that illustrate the sorry state of education in black America.
  His choice of language was a bit doom-laden, but his take on the current oil situation appears to justify his pretty grim view of what's in store.
  The 1,500-strong work force at the Gipsy Lane plant were given the grim news yesterday.
  At first sight, the table makes for rather grim reading.
  But once they leave school, the outlook for many school dropouts remains grim.
  The employment outlook is grim for front-end staff with basic web design and development qualifications.
  The war was a grim reminder of the inhumanity of man to man.
  Synonyms
  dreadful, dire, ghastly, horrible, horrendous, horrid, terrible, awful, appalling, frightful, shocking, unspeakable, atrocious, harrowing
3. 1.3 Unrelentingly harsh; merciless or severe.
  无情的，残忍的；严酷的
  few creatures are able to thrive in this grim and hostile land
  很少有生命能在这片条件极其恶劣的土地上生长繁衍。
  Example sentencesExamples
  There are moments that will break your heart with their grim, bleak realism.
  Arizona is one of the three poorest states in the US and Flagstaff reflects that grim economic reality.
  For many it was the hope of escaping the misery of their grim working lives that led them to sign up.
  The lives of agricultural and urban workers would have been just as grim.
  My goal was to record the grim daily lives of a people who had endured a half century of warfare.
  Rural life is shown as harsh and grim where the ablest and younger peasants sought to escape to the factories in the cities.
  The climate of Kolyma is extreme, even compared to the grim background of eastern Siberia.
  These tenant farmers often lived grim and bleak existences.
  If you want to shape up, but running and rock climbing leave you cold, maybe it's time to consider something less grim and solitary.
  Others are angry but matter-of-fact about a lifestyle that seems unbearably grim to the outsider.
  Synonyms
  merciless, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, savage, vicious, brutal, harsh, severe

Phrases

like (or for) grim death

With great determination.
坚韧不拔地
we had to hold on like grim death
我们必须顽强地坚持下去。
Example sentencesExamples
- I couldn't hear a thing - I just held on for grim death.
- If you dare look outside while you are clinging on for grim death, you see the bus is a few inches from the dawdling car in front, the airhorn urging the driver to move it, or move over.
- ‘Three of us clung on for grim death and we survived,’ said Paul McGeough of Australia ‘s Sydney Morning Herald.’
- I have seen people clinging on for grim death as they were almost tossed over the side.
- People were hanging on for grim death as I looked around for the sick bag!
- They held on like grim death to their advantage for eight minutes and actually came close to adding another score.
- They follow a proven formula: you get a job, you then get a mortgage and you then hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage.
- Argentina have won most of the plaudits so far, and they were certainly impressive with their movement, pace and skill, but they were also hanging on for grim death against the Ivory Coast at the end.
- It would have made for marvelous photos, except that I was too busy hanging on to my horse for grim death.
- Moments later they were hanging on for grim death.

Origin

Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm.

单词	grim
释义	Definition of grim in English: grim adjectivegrimmest, grimmer ɡrɪmɡrɪm 1Very serious or gloomy. his grim expression 他阴冷的表情。 Example sentencesExamples Dr. Ashton emerges, a grim expression on his face. Half an hour later, the men came home - trying not to look grim and worried. Ross watches Alex's long, lean face fall into an expression of grim frustration, and for a moment he feels sorry for him. The young man nodded, his expression frozen in grim acceptance. But she could see everyone else paying close attention, their expressions slowly becoming more serious and grim. Lari's expression turned grim, ‘There is no way to get out of here.’ His entire demeanor had changed, becoming hardened and grim, determination coupled with a strength that carried him past exhaustion. I looked up to see Meredith, her expression grim, staring down at me. Charlie's voice was grim, and there was little humour in her joke. The statement came shortly after staff at the five-year-old firm, which employs 11,000, arrived for work looking grim as they awaited news. She looked up to see his grim expression and immediately sobered. Then he'd walked away, looking so grim she'd known something was horribly wrong. Andrew entered through a side door to the observation room and stood beside the Doctor, face grim with worry. Nick's broad face is now very grim. In a brief, grim speech to the nation late on Saturday, the president did not say if he accepted their resignations. This time, none of them were laughing; they looked grim and serious. Edward is cheerful, albeit in a rather dark way, while Cara is grim and determined. "There's been a problem, " Gary explained, his expression grim. Lowering the hand holding his cordless phone, Charles walks up to Tyler, a grim expression on his handsome face. The headmaster and priest was there, a grim expression on his face. Synonyms stern, forbidding, uninviting, unapproachable, aloof, distant formidable, strict, dour, harsh steely, flinty, stony fierce, ferocious, threatening, menacing, mean-looking cross, churlish, crabbed, surly, sour, ill-tempered, unsmiling cruel, ruthless, merciless British informal boot-faced 1.1 Depressing or worrying to consider. 使人沮丧的；令人担忧的 the grim news of the murder 关于谋杀的令人担忧的消息。 Example sentencesExamples With these grim figures to consider, it is expected that Carlow would be one of the first test centres in the country to benefit from any forthcoming additional resources. This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts. The grim discovery of the body was made by a farmer yesterday morning. The war was a grim reminder of the inhumanity of man to man. Those are just some of the grim realities that illustrate the sorry state of education in black America. This means the prognosis is probably not as grim as conventional wisdom would have us believe. The disease carries a grim prognosis - only 14 percent of patients survive 5 years. And like most contemporary science fiction it offers a fairly grim view of the future. Back in the summer, the prospects for Everton's season were looking pretty grim. If this all sounds unrelentingly grim I promise you it isn't. The 1,500-strong work force at the Gipsy Lane plant were given the grim news yesterday. The employment outlook is grim for front-end staff with basic web design and development qualifications. Even when climate change is removed from the frame the picture remains grim. Some of the children will also be dressed in a black T-shirts as grim reminder of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians who died. His choice of language was a bit doom-laden, but his take on the current oil situation appears to justify his pretty grim view of what's in store. But thankfully things are not as grim as they seem. However, Health Protection Agency Figures dating back to 1995 paint a far more grim picture. Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common. But once they leave school, the outlook for many school dropouts remains grim. At first sight, the table makes for rather grim reading. The alternative - settling for economic, cultural and demographic stagnation - is too grim to consider. Synonyms dreadful, dire, ghastly, horrible, horrendous, horrid, terrible, awful, appalling, frightful, shocking, unspeakable, atrocious, harrowing grisly, gruesome, hideous, disgusting, revolting, gory, macabre, morbid depressing, distressing, upsetting, worrying, concerning, unpleasant, disagreeable 1.2 (of humour) lacking genuine levity; black. （情绪）低落的；不快乐的；郁闷的 some moments of grim humour 闷闷不乐的时刻。 Example sentencesExamples But somehow, that sort of irreverent, grim humor doesn't seem appropriate. Most of us use grim humour to cope with life's dark side. Although it took 13 reconstructive surgeries in six years to put her back together, Bray cultivated a certain grim sense of humor about her injuries. Sitting in the shade of the fig trees in Westminster's bustling Portcullis House last week, Ian Cawsey recalled with grim humour the moment when he almost died. One columnist who manages both to make sense of the situation and to wring some humor, however grim, out of it, is the gifted Diana West. Synonyms black, dark, mirthless, bleak, cynical, fatalistic 2(especially of a place) unattractive or forbidding. rows of grim, dark housing developments 一排排长长的令人感到压抑的、灰暗的新建住宅楼。 Example sentencesExamples The first draft I write by hand in my local library, where the room is so grim there is nothing else to distract me, so I concentrate on the writing just to get out of there. She saw a dark, grim street with drunks falling over their own feet and puking down the gutters. The vote of a single mum on a grim estate is currently worth a tiny fraction of the vote of a lawn-mowing Middle England mum in Basildon. In that film too, the Berlin I saw was a grim city, divided into east and west by a wall topped with barbed wire. Ever wondered how the NHS struggles by in the grotty, run-down and ultimately grim areas of this country? Arriving in the UK as a refugee, she and her mother ended up on a grim estate in Mitcham, Surrey. Bedford used to be a depressed, grim farming town, with nothing on offer for the weary traveller - just a lone truck stop and a café. Those rooms are grim, but nothing out of the ordinary. They live in a house in the most unpromising of territory - a grim estate on the Charlton-Woolwich boundary - yet the interior of their home is fantastic. I walked on all the way to Dartford, which is a bit grim to be honest. The tiny port is dominated by a grim stronghold castle, previously home to the pirates who terrorised the coast for centuries. When I first started reporting on Cuba more than a decade ago, the island was a grim place. They can't blame the frustrations of inner-city poverty for their actions, or the bleakness of life on a grim estate. The rear of Selfridges is a grim place, just a service road lined by characterless buildings, and totally unlike the elegance of the imposing frontage. An occasional oil-lamp burned in the upper stories of the grim tenements, above black shop-fronts. If I can be so bold as to generalise, relief centres are as grim as they are hectic. I had an image of a grim, gloomy hospital with stern faced staff. It is a grim suburb of Wishaw, composed of high-rise tower blocks and a network of lower-level blocks of flats, narrow alleyways and parking lots. A couple of blocks away from the muzak and smooth elevators of the mall, I arrived at a grim neighbourhood of porn cinemas and shuffling vagrants. Synonyms bleak, dreary, dismal, dingy, wretched, miserable, disheartening, depressing, cheerless, comfortless, joyless, gloomy, sombre, uninviting, drab informal God-awful 2.1 Unrelentingly harsh. few creatures thrive in this grim and hostile land 很少有生命能在这片条件极其恶劣的土地上生长繁衍。 Example sentencesExamples Arizona is one of the three poorest states in the US and Flagstaff reflects that grim economic reality. The lives of agricultural and urban workers would have been just as grim. Others are angry but matter-of-fact about a lifestyle that seems unbearably grim to the outsider. These tenant farmers often lived grim and bleak existences. The climate of Kolyma is extreme, even compared to the grim background of eastern Siberia. For many it was the hope of escaping the misery of their grim working lives that led them to sign up. My goal was to record the grim daily lives of a people who had endured a half century of warfare. There are moments that will break your heart with their grim, bleak realism. If you want to shape up, but running and rock climbing leave you cold, maybe it's time to consider something less grim and solitary. Rural life is shown as harsh and grim where the ablest and younger peasants sought to escape to the factories in the cities. Synonyms merciless, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, savage, vicious, brutal, harsh, severe Phrases the Grim Reaper A personification of death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a large scythe. he met the Grim Reaper a decade later Example sentencesExamples Crucially, no-one else had died in Emmerdale over Christmas so it was odds-on the Grim Reaper was sharpening his scythe for someone come the turn of New Year. like (or for) grim death With great determination. 坚韧不拔地 we had to hold on like grim death 我们必须顽强地坚持下去。 Example sentencesExamples They held on like grim death to their advantage for eight minutes and actually came close to adding another score. Moments later they were hanging on for grim death. I couldn't hear a thing - I just held on for grim death. I have seen people clinging on for grim death as they were almost tossed over the side. People were hanging on for grim death as I looked around for the sick bag! They follow a proven formula: you get a job, you then get a mortgage and you then hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage. If you dare look outside while you are clinging on for grim death, you see the bus is a few inches from the dawdling car in front, the airhorn urging the driver to move it, or move over. Argentina have won most of the plaudits so far, and they were certainly impressive with their movement, pace and skill, but they were also hanging on for grim death against the Ivory Coast at the end. It would have made for marvelous photos, except that I was too busy hanging on to my horse for grim death. ‘Three of us clung on for grim death and we survived,’ said Paul McGeough of Australia ‘s Sydney Morning Herald.’ Derivatives grimness noun ˈɡrɪmnəsˈɡrɪmnəs Rather than go out and spend in the shops, consumers are packing up and going on holiday to escape the growing grimness of life in Britain. Example sentencesExamples My hostel, on first encounter, had an institutional grimness defying the more immediate forms of description. If this is the state of affairs after the country's fervent embrace of capitalism in 1989, one can only imagine the grimness that prevailed under Soviet rule. Russians can have a seriousness that borders on grimness. Some of the elite recognised that high art could compensate for the deficits of capitalist society; beautiful paintings could make the grimness of everyday life a little easier to bear. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm. The meaning of grim has weakened over the centuries from its first appearance in Old English as ‘fierce or cruel’. To hang (or cling) on like grim death dates from the mid 19th century, but the use of grim for the forbidding appearance of the figure of Death is recorded much earlier. The Grim Reaper (mid 19th century) is a representation of Death in the form of a cloaked skeleton wielding a long scythe. Rhymes bedim, brim, crim, dim, glim, Grimm, gym, him, hymn, Jim, Kim, limb, limn, nim, prim, scrim, shim, Sim, skim, slim, swim, Tim, trim, vim, whim adj.1 phr. Definition of grim in US English: grim adjectiveɡrɪmɡrim 1Forbidding or uninviting. 严厉的；令人生畏的；不吸引人的；令人不快的 his grim expression 他阴冷的表情。 long rows of grim, dark housing developments 一排排长长的令人感到压抑的、灰暗的新建住宅楼。 Example sentencesExamples In a brief, grim speech to the nation late on Saturday, the president did not say if he accepted their resignations. "There's been a problem, " Gary explained, his expression grim. I looked up to see Meredith, her expression grim, staring down at me. Lari's expression turned grim, ‘There is no way to get out of here.’ The young man nodded, his expression frozen in grim acceptance. Half an hour later, the men came home - trying not to look grim and worried. His entire demeanor had changed, becoming hardened and grim, determination coupled with a strength that carried him past exhaustion. Lowering the hand holding his cordless phone, Charles walks up to Tyler, a grim expression on his handsome face. Dr. Ashton emerges, a grim expression on his face. Edward is cheerful, albeit in a rather dark way, while Cara is grim and determined. Charlie's voice was grim, and there was little humour in her joke. Ross watches Alex's long, lean face fall into an expression of grim frustration, and for a moment he feels sorry for him. The statement came shortly after staff at the five-year-old firm, which employs 11,000, arrived for work looking grim as they awaited news. Then he'd walked away, looking so grim she'd known something was horribly wrong. But she could see everyone else paying close attention, their expressions slowly becoming more serious and grim. The headmaster and priest was there, a grim expression on his face. Nick's broad face is now very grim. This time, none of them were laughing; they looked grim and serious. Andrew entered through a side door to the observation room and stood beside the Doctor, face grim with worry. She looked up to see his grim expression and immediately sobered. Synonyms stern, forbidding, uninviting, unapproachable, aloof, distant 1.1 (of humor) lacking genuine levity; mirthless; black. （情绪）低落的；不快乐的；郁闷的 some moments of grim humor 闷闷不乐的时刻。 Example sentencesExamples Most of us use grim humour to cope with life's dark side. But somehow, that sort of irreverent, grim humor doesn't seem appropriate. Sitting in the shade of the fig trees in Westminster's bustling Portcullis House last week, Ian Cawsey recalled with grim humour the moment when he almost died. One columnist who manages both to make sense of the situation and to wring some humor, however grim, out of it, is the gifted Diana West. Although it took 13 reconstructive surgeries in six years to put her back together, Bray cultivated a certain grim sense of humor about her injuries. Synonyms black, dark, mirthless, bleak, cynical, fatalistic 1.2 Depressing or worrying to consider. 使人沮丧的；令人担忧的 the grim news of the murder 关于谋杀的令人担忧的消息。 Example sentencesExamples Back in the summer, the prospects for Everton's season were looking pretty grim. Some of the children will also be dressed in a black T-shirts as grim reminder of the drivers, passengers and pedestrians who died. The alternative - settling for economic, cultural and demographic stagnation - is too grim to consider. If this all sounds unrelentingly grim I promise you it isn't. The disease carries a grim prognosis - only 14 percent of patients survive 5 years. The grim discovery of the body was made by a farmer yesterday morning. Such grim and gloomy comparisons between today's economic slowdown and those of yesteryear are common. This means the prognosis is probably not as grim as conventional wisdom would have us believe. However, Health Protection Agency Figures dating back to 1995 paint a far more grim picture. With these grim figures to consider, it is expected that Carlow would be one of the first test centres in the country to benefit from any forthcoming additional resources. This could be grim news for millions of consumers whose life savings are invested in pensions, endowments and other savings contracts. But thankfully things are not as grim as they seem. Even when climate change is removed from the frame the picture remains grim. And like most contemporary science fiction it offers a fairly grim view of the future. Those are just some of the grim realities that illustrate the sorry state of education in black America. His choice of language was a bit doom-laden, but his take on the current oil situation appears to justify his pretty grim view of what's in store. The 1,500-strong work force at the Gipsy Lane plant were given the grim news yesterday. At first sight, the table makes for rather grim reading. But once they leave school, the outlook for many school dropouts remains grim. The employment outlook is grim for front-end staff with basic web design and development qualifications. The war was a grim reminder of the inhumanity of man to man. Synonyms dreadful, dire, ghastly, horrible, horrendous, horrid, terrible, awful, appalling, frightful, shocking, unspeakable, atrocious, harrowing 1.3 Unrelentingly harsh; merciless or severe. 无情的，残忍的；严酷的 few creatures are able to thrive in this grim and hostile land 很少有生命能在这片条件极其恶劣的土地上生长繁衍。 Example sentencesExamples There are moments that will break your heart with their grim, bleak realism. Arizona is one of the three poorest states in the US and Flagstaff reflects that grim economic reality. For many it was the hope of escaping the misery of their grim working lives that led them to sign up. The lives of agricultural and urban workers would have been just as grim. My goal was to record the grim daily lives of a people who had endured a half century of warfare. Rural life is shown as harsh and grim where the ablest and younger peasants sought to escape to the factories in the cities. The climate of Kolyma is extreme, even compared to the grim background of eastern Siberia. These tenant farmers often lived grim and bleak existences. If you want to shape up, but running and rock climbing leave you cold, maybe it's time to consider something less grim and solitary. Others are angry but matter-of-fact about a lifestyle that seems unbearably grim to the outsider. Synonyms merciless, cruel, ruthless, pitiless, savage, vicious, brutal, harsh, severe Phrases like (or for) grim death With great determination. 坚韧不拔地 we had to hold on like grim death 我们必须顽强地坚持下去。 Example sentencesExamples I couldn't hear a thing - I just held on for grim death. If you dare look outside while you are clinging on for grim death, you see the bus is a few inches from the dawdling car in front, the airhorn urging the driver to move it, or move over. ‘Three of us clung on for grim death and we survived,’ said Paul McGeough of Australia ‘s Sydney Morning Herald.’ I have seen people clinging on for grim death as they were almost tossed over the side. People were hanging on for grim death as I looked around for the sick bag! They held on like grim death to their advantage for eight minutes and actually came close to adding another score. They follow a proven formula: you get a job, you then get a mortgage and you then hang on like grim death to your job to pay off the mortgage. Argentina have won most of the plaudits so far, and they were certainly impressive with their movement, pace and skill, but they were also hanging on for grim death against the Ivory Coast at the end. It would have made for marvelous photos, except that I was too busy hanging on to my horse for grim death. Moments later they were hanging on for grim death. Origin Old English, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm. adj.1 phr.
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