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grimly

/ˈɡrɪmli/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈɡrɪmli/
grimly
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Short i vowel
Ending
Final y vowel sound

grim - ly -> grimly

Myanmar meaning

(adv) ရက်စက်စွာ။

Full entry

grim / grÇm / adj (-mmer, -mmest )

၁။ (မျက်နှာထား) တင်းသော၊ ခက်ထန်သော။ မဆုတ်မနစ်သော။ a grim face/ smile ❍ She looked grim __ I could tell something was wrong. ❍ with a look of grim determination on his face ❍ grim-faced policemen.
၂။ မနှစ်မြို့စရာ။ ဆိုးသော။ စိတ်မကောင်း ဖွယ်ရာ။ grim news ❍ We face the grim prospect of still higher unemployment. ❍ a grim little tale of torture and murder.
၃။ ပင်ပန်းကြီးစွာ မနားမနေ လုပ်ရသော။ their grim day-to-day struggle for survival.
၄။ စိတ်ပျက်ဖွယ်။ the grim walls of the prison.
၅။ (infml ) အနေရ ဆိုး[သော]။ I feel pretty grim.
၆။ (infml ) ညံ့ [သော]။ I've seen her so-called paintings and they're fairly grim, I can tell you!
❏ grimly adv မလျှော့တမ်း။ ယတိပြတ်။ grimly determined. grimness n [U]

More examples
  • The grim reality of unemployment
  • The future looks pretty grim.
  • The house was lonely and rather grim.
  • His face was set in a grim expression.
  • ‘Exactly what I expected, ’ he said with grim satisfaction.
  • A grim determination to do God’s will
  • The game was a bit grim.
  • I started to feel grim about an hour after lunch.
Synonyms
bleak, harsh, severe, forbidding, dour, dismal, gloomy, depressing, uninviting, appalling, appearance, austere, awful, bad, barbarous, cantankerous, cheerless, churlish, crabbed, cruel, crusty, dingy, dire, distasteful, dogged, execrable, ferocious, fierce, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, ghastly, glowering, glum, gray, grisly, grouchy, gruesome, grumpy, hideous, hopeless, horrible, horrid, horrific, ill, implacable, indisposed, inept, inexorable, intractable, macabre, merciless, morose, off-colour, ominous, poorly, relentless, repugnant, resolute, ruthless, scowling, serious, shocking, shoddy, sinister, somber, sour, splenetic, stern, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, truculent, ugly, unattractive, unkind, unpleasant, unrelenting, unwell, unyielding
Antonyms
attractive, bright, cheerful, comforting, encouraging, excellent, gentle, good, happy, hopeful, joyful, kind, light, nice, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, sunny, well, wonderful
Cross references
bleakharshsevereforbiddingdourdismalgloomydepressinguninvitingappallingappearanceaustereawfulbadbarbarouscantankerouscheerlesschurlishcrabbedcruelcrustydingydiredistastefuldoggedexecrableferociousfierce
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