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grimmer
adjective as in hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- austere
- barbarous
- cantankerous
- churlish
- crabbed
- crusty
- dogged
- ferocious
- fierce
- forbidding
- foreboding
- formidable
- frightful
- funereal
- glowering
- grouchy
- grumpy
- hideous
- implacable
- inexorable
- intractable
- merciless
- morose
- relentless
- resolute
- ruthless
- scowling
- severe
- sinister
- splenetic
- stubborn
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- truculent
- unrelenting
- unyielding
Example Sentences
And as his fear rises, as his desperation becomes more obvious, his lies become wilder, grimmer, and more exhausting.
They showed that optimistic speeches about the war masked much grimmer behind-the-scenes assessments, and that keeping American presidents from the stigma of humiliating defeat was a dominant aim of continuing the war.
As attacks continue and the overall war outlook grows grimmer, the city veers between a sense of relative safety and an acute awareness of peril.
Other stories are grimmer: In late 1941, just after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese American Citizens League held an “Americanism Rally” at Washington Hall.
The overall statistics paint an even grimmer picture, with United facing more than 20 shots in eight of their past nine Premier League games, the other being 17 against Fulham.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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