transcription, транскрипция: [ grɪm ]
( grimmer, grimmest)
1.
A situation or piece of information that is grim is unpleasant, depressing, and difficult to accept.
They painted a grim picture of growing crime...
There was further grim economic news yesterday...
The mood could not have been grimmer.
ADJ
• grim‧ness
...an unrelenting grimness of tone.
N-UNCOUNT
2.
A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance.
...the tower blocks on the city’s grim edges.
ADJ
3.
If a person or their behaviour is grim , they are very serious, usually because they are worried about something. ( WRITTEN )
She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth...
Her expression was grim and unpleasant.
ADJ
4.
If you say that something is grim , you think that it is very bad, ugly, or depressing. ( INFORMAL )
Things were pretty grim for a time.
ADJ