Grim vs. Severe

Grimadjective

dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding

‘Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.’;

Severeadjective

Very bad or intense.

Grimadjective

rigid and unrelenting

‘His grim determination enabled him to win.’;

Severeadjective

Strict or harsh.

‘a severe taskmaster’;

Grimadjective

ghastly or sinister

‘A grim castle overshadowed the village.’;

Severeadjective

Sober, plain in appearance, austere.

‘a severe old maiden aunt’;

Grimadjective

disgusting; gross

‘- Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
- Mate, that is grim!’;

Severeadjective

Serious in feeling or manner; sedate; grave; austere; not light, lively, or cheerful.

‘Your looks alter, as your subject does,From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe.’;

Grimverb

To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

Severeadjective

Very strict in judgment, discipline, or government; harsh; not mild or indulgent; rigorous; as, severe criticism; severe punishment.

‘Come! you are too severe a moraler.’; ‘Let your zeal, if it must be expressed in anger, be always more severe against thyself than against others.’;

Grimnoun

(archaic) Anger, wrath.

Severeadjective

Rigidly methodical, or adherent to rule or principle; exactly conformed to a standard; not allowing or employing unneccessary ornament, amplification, etc.; strict; - said of style, argument, etc.

‘The Latin, a most severe and compendious language.’;

Grimadjective

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.

‘Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking.’; ‘The ridges of grim war.’;

Severeadjective

Sharp; afflictive; distressing; violent; extreme; as, severe pain, anguish, fortune; severe cold.

Grimadjective

not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty;

‘grim determination’; ‘grim necessity’; ‘Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty’; ‘relentless persecution’; ‘the stern demands of parenthood’;

Severeadjective

Difficult to be endured; exact; critical; rigorous; as, a severe test.

Grimadjective

shockingly repellent; inspiring horror;

‘ghastly wounds’; ‘the grim aftermath of the bombing’; ‘the grim task of burying the victims’; ‘a grisly murder’; ‘gruesome evidence of human sacrifice’; ‘macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages’; ‘macabre tortures conceived by madmen’;

Severeadjective

intensely or extremely bad or unpleasant in degree or quality;

‘severe pain’; ‘a severe case of flu’; ‘a terrible cough’; ‘under wicked fire from the enemy's guns’; ‘a wicked cough’;

Grimadjective

harshly ironic or sinister;

‘black humor’; ‘a grim joke’; ‘grim laughter’; ‘fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit’;

Severeadjective

very strong or vigorous;

‘strong winds’; ‘a hard left to the chin’; ‘a knockout punch’; ‘a severe blow’;

Grimadjective

causing dejection;

‘a blue day’; ‘the dark days of the war’; ‘a week of rainy depressing weather’; ‘a disconsolate winter landscape’; ‘the first dismal dispiriting days of November’; ‘a dark gloomy day’; ‘grim rainy weather’;

Severeadjective

severely simple;

‘a stark interior’;

Grimadjective

harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance;

‘a dour, self-sacrificing life’; ‘a forbidding scowl’; ‘a grim man loving duty more than humanity’; ‘undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw’;

Severeadjective

unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment;

‘a parent severe to the pitch of hostility’; ‘a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien’; ‘a strict disciplinarian’; ‘a Spartan upbringing’;

Grimadjective

characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom;

‘gloomy at the thought of what he had to face’; ‘gloomy predictions’; ‘a gloomy silence’; ‘took a grim view of the economy’; ‘the darkening mood’;

Severeadjective

causing fear or anxiety by threatening great harm;

‘a dangerous operation’; ‘a grave situation’; ‘a grave illness’; ‘grievous bodily harm’; ‘a serious wound’; ‘a serious turn of events’; ‘a severe case of pneumonia’; ‘a life-threatening disease’;

Severeadjective

very bad in degree or extent;

‘a severe worldwide depression’; ‘the house suffered severe damage’;

Severeadjective

(of something bad or undesirable) very great; intense

‘a severe shortage of technicians’; ‘a severe attack of asthma’; ‘the damage is not too severe’;

Severeadjective

demanding great ability, skill, or resilience

‘a severe test of stamina’;

Severeadjective

(of punishment of a person) strict or harsh

‘the charges would have warranted a severe sentence’;

Severeadjective

(of a person) formal and unsmiling.

Severeadjective

very plain in style or appearance

‘she wore another severe suit, grey this time’;