Dữ tợn, tàn nhẫn, nhẫn tâm, ác nghiệt

a grim face

nét mặt dữ tợn đầy sát khí

a grim smile

nụ cười nham hiểm

a grim battle

cuộc chiến đấu ác liệt

Không lay chuyển được

grim determination

quyết tâm không lay chuyển được

like grim death

dứt khoát không lay chuyển

Stern, severe, unrelenting, resolute, uncompromising,unyielding, inflexible, adamant, stony, iron, unbending, firm,intractable, unflinching, unmoving, unmoved, implacable,inexorable, determined, steadfast, (dead) set, fixed, decided,obstinate, headstrong, stubborn, obdurate, dogged, unwavering:By controlling the purse strings, she kept a grim hold over thefamily. 2 forbidding, formidable, harsh, ferocious, fierce,cruel, savage, merciless, heartless, ruthless, pitiless,vicious, brutal, brutish, feral, inhuman, fiendish, violent,bloodthirsty, murderous, homicidal, fell: A grim pack ofhowling wolves loped after our sledge.

Dire, dreadful,ghastly, awful, frightful, frightening, sinister, hideous,horrid, horrific, horrible, horrendous, terrible, terrifying,terrific, harrowing, dread, alarming, appalling, grotesque,gruesome, eerie, macabre, flagitious, heinous, evil, wicked,iniquitous, atrocious, monstrous: Before me appeared theghostly apparition of the Grim Reaper.

(grimmer, grimmest) 1 of a stern or forbidding appearance.2 harsh, merciless, severe.

Ghastly, joyless, sinister (has agrim truth in it).

Unpleasant, unattractive.

Grimly adv. grimness n. [OEf. Gmc]