All grim synonyms

adj grim

• gloomy — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
• harsh — ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
• horrid — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
• sour — having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
• somber — gloomily dark; shadowy; dimly lighted: a somber passageway.
• terrible — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
• cruel — Someone who is cruel deliberately causes pain or distress to people or animals.
• glum — sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
• grisly — gristly.
• ghastly — shockingly frightful or dreadful; horrible: a ghastly murder.
• stern — rear of boat
• gruesome — causing great horror; horribly repugnant; grisly: the site of a gruesome murder.
• shocking — causing intense surprise, disgust, horror, etc.
• ominous — portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.
• bleak — If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
• austere — If you describe something as austere, you approve of its plain and simple appearance.
• barbarous — If you describe something as barbarous, you strongly disapprove of it because you think that it is rough and uncivilized.
• cantankerous — Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
• churlish — Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
• crusty — Crusty bread has a hard, crisp outside.
• dogged — doggoned; damned; confounded: Well, I'll be dogged!
• ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
• fierce — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
• forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
• foreboding — a prediction; portent.
• formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
• frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
• funereal — of or suitable for a funeral.
• grouchy — sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
• grumpy — surly or ill-tempered; discontentedly or sullenly irritable; grouchy.
• hideous — horrible or frightful to the senses; repulsive; very ugly: a hideous monster.
• implacable — not to be appeased, mollified, or pacified; inexorable: an implacable enemy.
• inexorable — unyielding; unalterable: inexorable truth; inexorable justice.
• intractable — not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition.
• merciless — without mercy; having or showing no mercy; pitiless; cruel: a merciless critic.
• morose — gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
• relentless — that does not relent; unyieldingly severe, strict, or harsh; unrelenting: a relentless enemy.
• resolute — firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion: Her parents wanted her to marry, but she was focused on her education and remained resolute.
• ruthless — without pity or compassion; cruel; merciless: a ruthless tyrant.
• severe — harsh; unnecessarily extreme: severe criticism; severe laws.
• sinister — threatening or portending evil, harm, or trouble; ominous: a sinister remark.
• stubborn — unreasonably obstinate; obstinately unmoving: a stubborn child.
• sulky — marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
• sullen — showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
• surly — churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
• truculent — fierce; cruel; savagely brutal.
• unrelenting — not relenting; not yielding or swerving in determination or resolution, as of or from opinions, convictions, ambitions, ideals, etc.; inflexible: an unrelenting opponent of the Equal Rights Amendment.
• unyielding — unable to bend or be penetrated under pressure; hard: trees so unyielding that they broke in the harsh north winds.
• crabbed — surly; irritable; perverse
• glowering — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.