Grim vs. Ugly

Grimadjective

dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding

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

Uglyadjective

Displeasing to the eye; not aesthetically pleasing.

Grimadjective

rigid and unrelenting

‘His grim determination enabled him to win.’;

Uglyadjective

Displeasing to the ear or some other sense.

Grimadjective

ghastly or sinister

‘A grim castle overshadowed the village.’;

Uglyadjective

Offensive to one's sensibilities or morality.

‘He played an ugly trick on us.’;

Grimadjective

disgusting; gross

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

Uglyadjective

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome.

‘an ugly temper; to feel ugly’;

Grimverb

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

Uglyadjective

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss.

‘an ugly rumour; an ugly customer; an ugly wound’; ‘With all this competition, expect things to get ugly.’;

Grimnoun

(archaic) Anger, wrath.

Uglyadjective

Offensive to the sight; contrary to beauty; being of disagreeable or loathsome aspect; unsightly; repulsive; deformed.

‘The ugly view of his deformed crimes.’; ‘Like the toad, ugly and venomous.’; ‘O, I have passed a miserable night,So full of ugly sights, of ghastly dreams.’;

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.’;

Uglyadjective

Ill-natured; crossgrained; quarrelsome; as, an ugly temper; to feel ugly.

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’;

Uglyadjective

Unpleasant; disagreeable; likely to cause trouble or loss; as, an ugly rumor; an ugly customer.

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’;

Uglynoun

A shade for the face, projecting from the bonnet.

Grimadjective

harshly ironic or sinister;

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

Uglyverb

To make ugly.

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’;

Uglyadjective

displeasing to the senses and morally revolting;

‘an ugly face’; ‘ugly furniture’; ‘war is ugly’;

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’;

Uglyadjective

deficient in beauty;

‘ugly gray slums’;

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’;

Uglyadjective

inclined to anger or bad feelings with overtones of menace;

‘a surly waiter’; ‘an ugly frame of mind’;

Uglyadjective

morally reprehensible;

‘would do something as despicable as murder’; ‘ugly crimes’; ‘the vile development of slavery appalled them’;

Uglyadjective

threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments;

‘a baleful look’; ‘forbidding thunderclouds’; ‘his tone became menacing’; ‘ominous rumblings of discontent’; ‘sinister storm clouds’; ‘a sinister smile’; ‘his threatening behavior’; ‘ugly black clouds’; ‘the situation became ugly’;

Uglyadjective

provoking horror;

‘an atrocious automobile accident’; ‘a frightful crime of decapitation’; ‘an alarming, even horrifying, picture’; ‘war is beyond all words horrible’; ‘an ugly wound’;