grim
/ɡrɪm/
adjective
- Very serious, stern, or forbidding in appearance or manner.
- The teacher gave the students a grim look when they wouldn't stop talking.
- She wore a grim expression throughout the entire meeting.
- His face was grim as he delivered the bad news.
- Causing feelings of sadness, worry, or hopelessness; unpleasant and depressing.
- The report painted a grim picture of the country's economy.
- After the storm, the town faced a grim reality of widespread damage.
- The hospital waiting room had a grim atmosphere.
- Unpleasantly harsh or unyielding; not giving in to pleasure or comfort.
- They endured the grim conditions of the long winter with little food.
- Life in the prison camp was grim and monotonous.
- The soldiers faced a grim struggle to survive.