Synonyms Dictionary
2. dreadful, dire, direful, dark, black, baleful, terrible; terrifying, frightful, dread, appalling; alarming, distressing, harrowing, rending; redoubtable, fearsome, formidable, awful; horrible, horrid, horrendous, monstrous, atrocious; hideous, ghastly, eerie, grotesque, macabre, grisly, gruesome, unspeakable; outrageous, shocking, enormous, flagrant; nefarious, heinous, flagitious, villainous; infamous, notorious, odious; wicked, evil, vile, iniquitous, Archaic. facinorous; abhorrent, revolting, repulsive, repugnant, loathsome, despicable, detestable, hateful.
3. surly, sullen, sulky, somber, sour, morose; crusty, crabby, cantankerous, churlish; cross, testy, ill-natured, ill-tempered, irascible, petulant; forbidding, threatening, menacing, sinister, lowering; gloomy, dismal, dreary, Literary, drear, miserable; wretched, abject, squalid, sorry, destitute.
4. fierce, savage, ferocious, vicious, fell, truculent; bestial, brutish, feral, ferine, tigerish, wolfish, lupine; brutal, violent, inhuman, barbarous, barbaric, hellish, Tartarian, Hunnish, Gothic, Vandalic; murderous, homicidal, slaughterous, bloodthirsty, sanguinary; sadistic, animalistic, cannibalistic, fiendish, ghoulish, ogreish; diabolical, demonic, devilish, satanic; pitiless, merciless, heartless, cruel, ruthless; hard-hearted, cold-hearted, stony-hearted, marble-hearted, cold-blooded. grimace, n. 1. face, wry face, Archaic, mow, SI. mug, mouth, contortion; frown, scowl, glare; pout, Fr. moue; sneer, smirk, grin.
-v. 2. mouth, Si. mug, Inf. make a face, mop, Archaic. now, contort; frown, scowl, glower, glare; sneer, smirk, grin; pout, stick out one's lower lip, Fr. faire la moue. grime, n. 1. dirt, filth, squalor; smudge, stain, tarnish, rust; mud, muck, mire; slime, scum, SI. crud, Inf. gook, SI. yuk; dust, soot.
-v. 2. soil, dirty, blacken, tarnish, begrime; sully, befoul, defile, contaminate; spatter, muddy, bemire, blotch, smudge, smirch, spot, stain. grimy, adj. dirty, filthy, blackened, tarnished, begrimed; muddied, bedraggled, dirt-encrusted, befouled, besmeared; soiled, stained, spotted, smudged; squalid, slovenly, sleazy, SI. crummy, SI. grungy, SI. yukky. grin, v. 1. smile, laugh; grin from ear to ear, grin like a Cheshire cat.
-n. 2. smile, laugh; grimace, simper, smirk. grind, v. 1. whet, mill, kibble, stone, sand, sandpaper, pumice; grate, file, rasp, scrape, gride; smooth, polish, burnish, buff.
2. crush, bray, pound, beat, mash, smash, SI. smush; pulverize, mortar, comminute, triturate, levigate, powder, granulate, shatter, crumble, disintegrate.
3. persecute, afflict, dragoon, abuse, mistreat, maltreat, ill-treat, scourge; castigate, chastise, punish; torture, molest, torment, plague, trouble, bother; harass, harry, hound, hector, pester, badger, Archaic, haggle; oppress, suppress, subdue, keep down.
4. grit, grate, rasp, gride, abrade, rub; scrape, scratch, clank, jangle, clash; screech, creak, screak, shrill, stridu-late, set one's teeth on edge.
5. crank, wind, coil, turn, rotate, wheel, winch, windlass.
6. produce, generate, turn out, bring forth; manufacture, make, create.
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