GRIMLY Synonyms

• stubbornly unyielding

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• showing a brooding ill humor

• an official prohibition or edict against something

• harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance

• threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments

• moody and melancholic

• showing a brooding ill humor

• annoyed and irritable

• not easy; requiring great physical or mental effort to accomplish or comprehend or endure

• dispassionate

• resisting weight or pressure

• produced without vibration of the vocal cords

• (of light) transmitted directly from a pointed light source

• (of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum

• with effort or force or vigor

• with firmness

• earnestly or intently

• causing great damage or hardship

• slowly and with difficulty

• indulging excessively

• into a solid condition

• very near or close in space or time

• with pain or distress or bitterness

• to the full extent possible; all the way

• very strong or vigorous

• characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort

• given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors

• being distilled rather than fermented; having a high alcoholic content

• unfortunate or hard to bear

• dried out

• United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (1905-1998)

• United States evangelist (1837-1899)

• showing a brooding ill humor

• subject to sharply varying moods

• showing a brooding ill humor

• intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality

• very strong or vigorous

• severely simple

• unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment

• causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm

• very bad in degree or extent

• dignified and somber in manner or character and committed to keeping promises

• characterized by a firm and humorless belief in the validity of your opinions

• lacking brightness or color; dull

• grave or even gloomy in character

• resembling steel as in hardness

• resembling steel in hardness

• the rear part of a ship

• United States concert violinist (born in Russia in 1920)

• the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on

• of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect

• not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

• severe and unremitting in making demands

• severely simple

• showing a brooding ill humor

• darkened by clouds

• not smiling

• shockingly repellent; inspiring horror