Grim vs. Somber
Difference Between Grim and Somber
Grim➦
Discouraging or depressing
The business news has been grim lately.
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Somber➦
Dark; gloomy
a somber room.
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Grim➦
Dismal; gloomy
a grim, rainy day.
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Somber➦
Dull or dark in color
somber hues.
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Grim➦
Stern or forbidding
The judge was grim when handing out the sentence.
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Somber➦
Melancholy; dismal
a somber mood.
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Grim➦
Repellent or horrifying
the grim task of searching for bodies in the rubble.
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Somber➦
Serious; grave
a somber spokesperson.
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Grim➦
Unrelenting or uncompromising
grim determination.
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Somber➦
(American spelling) sombre
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Grim➦
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
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Somber➦
(American spelling) sombre
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Grim➦
Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
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Somber➦
Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.
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Grim➦
Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
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Somber➦
Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections.
The dinner was silent and somber; happily it was also short.
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Grim➦
Disgusting; gross.
– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
– Mate, that is grim!
– Mate, that is grim!
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Somber➦
To make somber, or dark; to make shady.
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Grim➦
(obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
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Somber➦
Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.
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Grim➦
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
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Somber➦
grave or even gloomy in character;
solemn and mournful music
a suit of somber black
a somber mood
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Grim➦
A promiscuous woman.
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Somber➦
lacking brightness or color; dull;
drab faded curtains
sober Puritan gray
children in somber brown clothes
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Grim➦
(obsolete) Anger, wrath.
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Grim➦
(obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
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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.
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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
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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
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Grim➦
harshly ironic or sinister;
black humor
a grim joke
grim laughter
fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit
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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
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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
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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
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