Grim vs. Smile — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Grim and Smile
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Grim
Discouraging or depressing
The business news has been grim lately.
Smile
A smile is formed primarily by flexing the muscles at the sides of the mouth. Some smiles include a contraction of the muscles at the corner of the eyes, an action known as a Duchenne smile.
Grim
Dismal; gloomy
A grim, rainy day.
Smile
A facial expression characterized by an upward curving of the corners of the mouth and indicating pleasure, amusement, or derision.
Grim
Stern or forbidding
The judge was grim when handing out the sentence.
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Smile
To have or form a smile.
Grim
Repellent or horrifying
The grim task of searching for bodies in the rubble.
Smile
To look with favor or approval
Fortune smiled on our efforts.
Grim
Unrelenting or uncompromising
Grim determination.
Smile
To express cheerful acceptance or equanimity
We smiled at the bad weather and kept going.
Grim
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
Smile
To express with a smile
Grandmother smiled her consent.
Grim
Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
Smile
A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement, goodwill, or anxiety.
She's got a perfect smile.
He has a sinister smile.
She had a smile on her face.
He always puts a smile on my face.
Grim
Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
Smile
(figurative) Favour; propitious regard.
The smile of the gods
Grim
Disgusting; gross.
– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
– Mate, that is grim!
– Mate, that is grim!
Smile
A drink bought by one person for another.
Grim
(obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
Smile
(ambitransitive) To have (a smile) on one's face.
When you smile, the whole world smiles with you.
I don't know what he's smiling about.
She smiles a beautiful smile.
Grim
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Smile
(transitive) To express by smiling.
To smile consent, or a welcome
Grim
A promiscuous woman.
Smile
(intransitive) To express amusement, pleasure, or love and kindness.
Grim
(obsolete) Anger, wrath.
Smile
(intransitive) To look cheerful and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy.
The sun smiled down from a clear summer sky.
Grim
(obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
Smile
(intransitive) To be propitious or favourable; to countenance.
The gods smiled on his labours.
Grim
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.
Smile
To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently.
He doth nothing but frown. . . . He hears merry tales and smiles not.
She smiled to see the doughty hero slain.
When last I saw thy young blue eyes, they smiled.
Grim
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
Smile
To express slight contempt by a look implying sarcasm or pity; to sneer.
'T was what I said to Craggs and Child,Who praised my modesty, and smiled.
Grim
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
Smile
To look gay and joyous; to have an appearance suited to excite joy; as, smiling spring; smiling plenty.
The desert smiled,And paradise was opened in the wild.
Grim
Harshly ironic or sinister;
Black humor
A grim joke
Grim laughter
Fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
Smile
To be propitious or favorable; to favor; to countenance; - often with on; as, to smile on one's labors.
Grim
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
Smile
To express by a smile; as, to smile consent; to smile a welcome to visitors.
Grim
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
Smile
To affect in a certain way with a smile.
And sharply smile prevailing folly dead.
Grim
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
Smile
The act of smiling; a peculiar change or brightening of the face, which expresses pleasure, moderate joy, mirth, approbation, or kindness; - opposed to frown.
Sweet intercourseOf looks and smiles: for smiles from reason flow.
Smile
A somewhat similar expression of countenance, indicative of satisfaction combined with malevolent feelings, as contempt, scorn, etc; as, a scornful smile.
Smile
Favor; countenance; propitiousness; as, the smiles of Providence.
Smile
Gay or joyous appearance; as, the smiles of spring.
The brightness of their [the flowers'] smile was gone.
Smile
A facial expression characterized by turning up the corners of the mouth; usually shows pleasure or amusement
Smile
Change one's facial expression by spreading the lips, often to signal pleasure
Smile
Express with a smile;
She smiled her thanks
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