grimadjective
uk/ɡrɪm/us/ɡrɪm/grimmer, grimmestgrim adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
C2 worrying, without hope:
The future looks grim.
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- I divined from his grim expression that the news was not good.
- Her prospects are grim.
- The doctor's diagnosis was grim.
- The situation in the drought-stricken region is grim.
- Experts have been giving grim predictions for the future of the company.
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Not hopeful
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- chance
- defeatist
- dejected
- dim
- give up on sb/sth
- glum
- hiding
- hope
- hopeless
- lose
- negative
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism
- pessimistic
- prophet
- prophet of doom idiom
- win
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grim adjective (SERIOUS)
C2 worried and serious or sad:
Her face was grim as she told them the bad news.
The expression on his face was one of grim determination.
Later Mr Ashby left the court, grim-faced and silent.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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Anxious and worried
grim adjective (UNPLEASANT)
C2 informal very unpleasant or ugly:
a grim-looking block of flats
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Serious and unpleasant
- abominable
- abysmal
- apocalyptic
- appalling
- awfully
- belief
- corrosive
- grisly
- grotesque
- gruesome
- hate
- hateful
- noxious
- revolting
- rotten
- shitty
- shocking
- shockingly
- stinking
- wretched
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grimly
adverb uk/ˈɡrɪm.li/us/ˈɡrɪm.li/
grimness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡrɪm.nəs/us/ˈɡrɪm.nəs/
Idiom(s)
hang/hold on like grim death