grim vs down
down vs grimgrim is not a noun while down is a noun.
grim and down both are adjectives.
grim is not a verb while down is a verb.
grim is not an adverb while down is an adverb.
| Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| grim | No | Yes | No | No |
| down | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
As adjectives,
grim and down
are synonyms defined as:
- grim and down: filled with melancholy and despondency
Other synonyms of grim include
blue, depressed, dispirited, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, gloomy, low-spirited, low.
| grim (noun) | down (noun) |
|---|---|
| (American football) a complete play to advance the football | |
| soft fine feathers | |
| fine soft dense hair (as the fine short hair of cattle or deer or the wool of sheep or the undercoat of certain dogs) | |
| (usually plural) a rolling treeless highland with little soil |
| grim (adjective) | down (adjective) |
|---|---|
| shockingly repellent; inspiring horror | being or moving lower in position or less in some value |
| filled with melancholy and despondency | filled with melancholy and despondency |
| causing dejection | extending or moving from a higher to a lower place |
| not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty | becoming progressively lower |
| harshly ironic or sinister | not functioning (temporarily or permanently) |
| harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance | lower than previously |
| shut | |
| being put out in a game of baseball | |
| understood perfectly |
| grim (verb) | down (verb) |
|---|---|
| improve or perfect by pruning or polishing | |
| bring down or defeat (an opponent) | |
| drink down entirely | |
| eat up completely, as with great appetite | |
| cause to come or go down | |
| shoot at and force to come down |
| grim (adverb) | down (adverb) |
|---|---|
| spatially or metaphorically from a higher to a lower level or position | |
| away from a more central or a more northerly place | |
| paid in cash at time of purchase | |
| in an inactive or inoperative state | |
| to a lower intensity | |
| from an earlier time |
Words related to "grim"
- alarming
- black
- blue
- cheerless
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- depressing
- dingy
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- drab
- drear
- dreary
- forbidding
- ghastly
- gloomy
- grimness
- grisly
- gruesome
- implacable
- inexorable
- low
- low-spirited
- macabre
- mordant
- relentless
- sarcastic
- sick
- sorry
- stern
- unappeasable
- uncheerful
- unforgiving
- unpleasant
- unrelenting
Words related to "down"
- American football
- American football game
- ameliorate
- amend
- athletics
- ball
- baseball
- baseball game
- behind
- belt down
- better
- blue
- bolt down
- civilise
- civilize
- consume
- cultivate
- cut down
- defeat
- dejected
- demolish
- depressed
- descending
- devour
- dispirited
- down feather
- down in the mouth
- down pat
- downbound
- downcast
- downer
- downfield
- downhearted
- downward
- downwardly
- downwards
- downy
- drink
- drink down
- duck down
- eat up
- educate
- fallen
- falling
- fine-tune
- finish
- get the better of
- gloomy
- go through
- goose down
- grim
- hair
- highland
- imbibe
- improve
- inoperative
- kill
- knock down
- land
- lanugo
- low
- low-spirited
- lowered
- mastered
- meliorate
- out
- over-refine
- overcome
- overrefine
- perfect
- pile
- play
- plumage
- plume
- plumule
- plural
- plural form
- polish
- polish off
- pop
- pour down
- pull down
- push down
- refine
- school
- set
- shoot down
- sport
- strike
- submarine
- swan's down
- thrown
- toss off
- train
- turn
- up
- upland
- weak
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