Difference between Grim and Dismal

GRIM vs DISMAL: NOUN

Plural The blues; the dumps; a state of gloominess or despondency: as, to be in the dismals.
See extract and etymology.
Gloom; melancholy; dumps: usually in the plural, in the phrase in the dismals.
Plural Mourning-garments.
A name given in the southern Atlantic States, in the region bordering on the sea and sounds, and especially in North Carolina, to a tract of land, swampy in character, often covered by a considerable thickness of half-decayed wood and saturated with water.
The devil.

Ghastly or sinister
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
Unrelenting or uncompromising.
Repellent or horrifying: : ghastly.
Stern or forbidding.
Dismal; gloomy.
Discouraging or depressing.
Causing dejection
Harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Harshly ironic or sinister
Characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom
Rigid and unrelenting
Filled with melancholy and despondency
Disgusting; gross
Not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

Depressing.
Gloomy and bleak.
Disappointingly inadequate.
Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary
Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
Dreadful; disastrous.
Characterized by ineptitude, dullness, or a lack of merit.
Causing gloom or depression; dreary.
Causing dejection
Depressing in character or appearance

Shockingly repellent
Inspiring horror
To make grim; give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Synonyms Grisly, Hideous, etc. (see ghastly); severe, harsh, hard.
Marked by harshness or severity; distressful; dolorous; cheerless: as, grim suffering; a grim jest.
Stern in character or quality; unyielding; dreadful; formidable: as, grim determination.
Of a fierce, stern, or forbidding aspect; severe or repellent in appearance or demeanor; fierce; sullen; surly.

To feel dismal or melancholy.
Gloomy; dreary; cheerless; melancholy; doleful; dolorous: originally, as an adjective, in the phrase dismal day or dismal days (see etymology), whence it was extended to any visible physical surroundings, or anything perceived or apprehended, tending to depress or chill the spirits.

Dark, Disconsolate, Alarming, Unpleasant, Hopeless, Macabre, Gruesome, Ghastly, Cheerless, Dispiriting, Grisly, Dismal, Dour, Depressing, Gloomy

Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy

Dark, Disconsolate, Alarming, Unpleasant, Hopeless, Macabre, Gruesome, Ghastly, Cheerless, Dispiriting, Grisly, Dismal, Dour, Depressing, Gloomy

Abysmal, Uncheerful, Blue, Dark, Sorry, Dingy, Drear, Disconsolate, Drab, Cheerless, Grim, Depressing, Dreary, Dispiriting, Gloomy

The Grim Reapers MC takes its name and iconography from the traditional and symbolic personification of death, the Grim Reaper.
Grim Dawn, Drawn from the Shaman and and my appreciation for any game that manages to do that is anything but grim.
Summary: Billy, Mandy and Grim go to the beach where Grim falls asleep and Billy buries him in sand.
Grim Dawn is about survival and adaptation to the grim new reality of the new world.
For example grim reaper brings the demon grim reaper.
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Grim Fandango reinvents the role of a grim reaper as something akin to a travel agent.
The world outlook is grim, very grim, says Peter Beter.
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Grim explains to Billy that, as the Grim Reaper, Grim cannot have good dreams.

So Whatevoked this sense of a dismal tide.
The success rate for second marriages is dismal.
Outside the Church, we are in dismal straights.
The bank rates a dismal F on BBB.
My dismal scene I needs must act alone.
The Dismal Swamp Canal Trail is a paved, heavily wooded pathway along the eastern border of Dismal Swamp State Park.
Dismal Swamp, it made me feel very dismal as I looked at it.
Undue inducements and reasonable risks: Will the dismal science lead to dismal research ethics?
Word of the Day: Dismal Dismal adj Gloomy.
Dismal, but not utterly dismal, is still dismal in my book.