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单词 grimness
释义
grimness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈɡrɪm.nəs/us
/ˈɡrɪm.nəs/

grimnessnoun[U](WITHOUT HOPE)

thefeelingorstateof having nohope:
严峻，绝望
NBC'sreporternotedthe grimness of therescueeffort.NBC的记者注意到了救援工作的严峻性。
I make acommenttoday about the grimness ofouroutlook.今天我要谈谈我们前景的严峻性。
More examples
  • He wassmilingbut with such grimness that shebegantoregretherdecisionto come.
  • I'm alsostruckby the grimness in people'sfaces.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not hopeful
  • be in a funkidiom
  • be on a hiding to nothingidiom
  • bleak
  • bleakly
  • bleakness
  • dispiritedness
  • dispiritingly
  • doomed
  • doomster
  • downcast
  • downhearted
  • gloom
  • hopelessly
  • hopelessness
  • lose heartidiom
  • merchant
  • merchant of doom/gloomidiom
  • someonecan't winidiom
  • undone
  • what are you going to do?idiom
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grimnessnoun[U](SERIOUSNESS)

seriousnessanddetermination:
严厉，坚定
There was abriskgrimness in the way hespoke.他说起话来简短严厉。
Shenoticedthe grimness about hismouth.她注意到他说话时的阴冷腔调。
More examples
  • Shesawthepinchedlookaround hismouth, the grimness in hiseyes.
  • There was a grimness about his words thatvaguelyunsettledme.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Anxious and worried
  • (all) hot and botheredidiom
  • -racked
  • aflutter
  • agitated
  • angsty
  • anxious
  • fretfully
  • frightened
  • fuss
  • get in a sweatidiom
  • grim
  • queasily
  • queasiness
  • queasy
  • rattled
  • rest easyidiom
  • strung out
  • worrier
  • worrywart
  • wound up
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grimnessnoun[U](UGLINESS)

thequalityof beinguglyorunpleasant, or notenjoyable:
狰狞，丑陋，冷酷
anoiltownofunrelentinggrimness一个冷酷无情的石油小镇
Theyearshad nottamedthewildness, orsoftenedthe grimness, of herappearance.岁月并不曾驯服她的野性，也不曾让她那粗糙的外形变得柔和。
Synonyms
barrenness
bleakness
desolation(EMPTINESS)
starkness
See
grim
More examples
  • Hisfilmtracestheevolutionof thecelebratedManchesterband, whiledepictingthe grimness of SeventiesBritain.
  • the grimness oflifefor theunemployedin theslums
  • The other thing thatstruckher was theoppressivegrimness of hissurroundings.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Serious and unpleasant
  • abominable
  • abominably
  • abysmal
  • abysmally
  • apocalyptic
  • fiendish
  • fraught
  • frightful
  • from hellidiom
  • fun
  • nightmarish
  • nightmarishly
  • noisome
  • not be all fun and gamesidiom
  • objectionable
  • vile
  • woeful
  • woefully
  • wretchedly
  • yucky
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(Definition ofgrimnessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofgrimness

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We shall do no great service to the country by glossing over thegrimnesseither of the facts or the tasks which face us.
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Revolutions come when people cannot fear the unknown ahead more than thegrimnessof the known.
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We must impress on the people thegrimnessof the task that lies ahead.
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First let me paint the picture in all itsgrimnessas it stands at the present time.
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It has been said that we must alleviate thegrimnessof the coming winter by performances of this kind.
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But in thegrimnessof that determination there seems to me to lie a certain danger.
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That seems to me to be the problem in all itsgrimness.
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They know of all thegrimness.
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If we have any philosophy at all, it is that we judge thegrimnessof the past by the horizons open to our children in the future.
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But the verygrimnessof the places puts them off in many cases, and, what is more, people just do not know about the improved conditions inside the homes.
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There is no tradition ofgrimness.
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Notwithstanding what would now be considered thegrimnessand severity of the system, the number of the students was large.
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With the bolshevistgrimness, everybody who imparts provocational rumours or generates panic, must be expiscated.
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On his way to the high school where he teaches, he is unnerved by thegrimnessand ugliness of industrialisation.
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Their influence has been prodigious; nowadays, with few exceptions, the western exists to remind us of thegrimnessand loss it once ignored.
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