Grimly

Definition

grim / grÇm / adj ( -mmer, -mmest ) ၁။ (မ်က္ႏွာထား) တင္းေသာ၊ ခက္ထန္ေသာ။ မဆုတ္မနစ္ေသာ။ 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။ မႏွစ္ၿမိဳ႕စရာ။ ဆိုးေသာ။ စိတ္မေကာင္း ဖြယ္ရာ။ grim news ❍ We face the grim prospect of still higher unemployment. ❍ a grim little tale of torture and murder. ၃။ ပင္ပန္းႀကီးစြာ မနားမေန လုပ္ရေသာ။ their grim day-to-day struggle for survival. ၄။ စိတ္ပ်က္ဖြယ္။ the grim walls of the prison. ၅။ ( infml ) အေနရ ဆိုး[ေသာ]။ I feel pretty grim. ၆။ ( infml ) ညံ့ [ေသာ]။ I've seen her so-called paintings and they're fairly grim, I can tell you! ❏ grimly adv မေလွ်ာ့တမ္း။ ယတိျပတ္။ grimly determined. grimness n [U]

Examples

1. The grim reality of unemployment
2. The future looks pretty grim.
3. The house was lonely and rather grim.
4. His face was set in a grim expression.
5. ‘Exactly what I expected
6. ’ he said with grim satisfaction.
7. A grim determination to do God’s will
8. The game was a bit grim.
9. I started to feel grim about an hour after lunch.