grim
英[grɪm]
美[ɡrɪm]
- adj. 冷酷的；糟糕的；残忍的
- n. (Grim)人名；(英、德、俄、捷、匈)格里姆
英英释意
- 1. not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;
- "grim determination"
- "grim necessity"
- "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"
- "relentless persecution"
- "the stern demands of parenthood"
- 2. shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;
- "ghastly wounds"
- "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
- "the grim task of burying the victims"
- "a grisly murder"
- "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"
- "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"
- "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
- 3. harshly ironic or sinister;
- "black humor"
- "a grim joke"
- "grim laughter"
- "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
- 4. causing dejection;
- "a blue day"
- "the dark days of the war"
- "a week of rainy depressing weather"
- "a disconsolate winter landscape"
- "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
- "a dark gloomy day"
- "grim rainy weather"
- 5. harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;
- "a dour, self-sacrificing life"
- "a forbidding scowl"
- "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"
- "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie
- 6. characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom;
- "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"
- "gloomy predictions"
- "a gloomy silence"
- "took a grim view of the economy"
- "the darkening mood"