Qualities
Synonyms for grim
Synonyms for grim: black and forbidding. Every one of them is a hand audited pair from the Synonym Stack word bank, shown below in the sense it fits, in a real sentence, and beside the words that only look close.
The 2 synonyms for grim
- blackadjective, in the sense "harshly ironic or sinister"
- forbiddingadjective, in the sense "harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance"
Each of these belongs to a different sense of grim, which is why the meaning beside them changes down the list.
harshly ironic or sinister
A grim joke.
The true synonym
black
Same sentence, swapped: A black joke.
Close but different
Wrong tiles, chosen to be tempting rather than absurd. The reason line above takes the nearest one apart; the rest fail the same sentence for their own reasons.
- stern
- ghastly
- dreadful
harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
A grim man loving duty more than humanity.
The true synonym
forbidding
Same sentence, swapped: A forbidding man loving duty more than humanity.
Close but different
Distractors, not synonyms. This entry has no written reason line yet, so read them against the sentence and the sense above.
- stiff
- strict
- mordant
Where grim turns up in the game
grim is the word under test in two puzzles, spread across two difficulty tiers. It also sits on the board as one of the three wrong tiles in two other puzzles, where the answer is a different word entirely.
The puzzles where grim is the trap
- hideousadjective, Tier 2, Treeline. The answer there is outrageous, in the sense "grossly offensive to decency or morality", and grim is one of the three tiles that lose.
- hideousadjective, Tier 3, Ridgeline. The answer there is repulsive, in the sense "so extremely ugly as to be terrifying", and grim is one of the three tiles that lose.
Play grim
The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so grim reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.
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Neighbours by theme before neighbours by difficulty, because qualities is the company grim keeps.
A reason under every answer, not just a right answer
Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. grim carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.