grim

I

(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)

adj. fearful, stern, fierce, forbidding; inflexible; ruthless; grisly, horrible. See resolution, ugliness.

II

(Roget's IV) modif.

1. [Sullen]

Syn. crabbed, sour, repellent, crusty, gloomy, intractable, sulky, morose, somber, sullen, splenetic, churlish, forbidding, glum, grumpy, scowling, grouchy, dour, glowering, dogged, stubborn, cantankerous.

Ant. happy*, cheerful, gay.

2. [Stern]

Syn. austere, strict, harsh; see severe 1 .

3. [Relentless]

Syn. unrelenting, implacable, inexorable; see severe 2 , wicked 2 .

III

(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) a.

gloomy, harsh, severe, stern, sullen, somber, hard, morose, surly, miserable, dour, menacing, bleak, hopeless, forbidding, sinister, horrible, ghastly, gruesome, resolute, determined.

ANT.: bright, cheerful, pleasant

IV

(Roget's Thesaurus II) adjective 1. Firmly, often unreasonably immovable in purpose or will: adamant, adamantine, brass-bound, die-hard, implacable, incompliant, inexorable, inflexible, intransigent, iron, obdurate, relentless, remorseless, rigid, stubborn, unbend-able, unbending, uncompliant, uncompromising, unrelenting, unyielding. Idiom: stubborn as a mule (or ox). See RESIST. 2. Cold and forbidding: austere, bleak, dour, hard, harsh, severe, stark. See ATTITUDE, HOT. 3. Shockingly repellent: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrid, lurid, macabre. See BEAUTIFUL.