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3 Facial expression: Dismal does not typically refer to facial expressions, while grim specifically describes a stern or harsh expression. 4 Environment: Dismal is often associated with an unwelcoming or dreary environment, while grim is associated with a bleak or desolate environment.
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7 meanings: 1. stern; resolute 2. harsh or formidable in manner or appearance 3. harshly ironic or sinister 4. cruel, severe,.... Click for more definitions.
I really do. American Heritage offers these definitions for "grim:" --Discouraging or depressing: The business news has been grim lately. --Dismal; gloomy: a grim, rainy day. --Stern or forbidding: The judge was grim when handing out the sentence. --Repellent or horrifying: the grim task of searching for bodies in the rubble.
As adjectives the difference between grim and harsh is that grim is dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding while harsh is unpleasantly rough to the touch or other senses. As a proper noun Grim is {{surname|A=An|English}}, probably derived from Old English grimm or Old Norse grimr or grimmr. As a verb harsh is to negatively criticize.
Listless, dispirited; in poor condition. Of a person, or his or her emotions, etc.: unsettled; out of sorts; upset. Characterized by loss of heart or resolution; labouring under mental depression; desponding. Of a character or aspect denoting gloom or depression; (subjectively) gloomy or miserable.
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