Difference between Grim and Black

What is the difference between Grim and Black?

Grim as an adjective is dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding while Black as an adjective is absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.

Grim

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding rigid and unrelenting ghastly or sinister

Example sentence: I don't smile a lot in my pictures. I'm always so... grim.

Black

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless.without light.Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture.Bad; evil.Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.Overcrowded.Lacking cream, milk and creamer.The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the black set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The colour/color perceived in the absence of light.A black dye, pigment.A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.A person of African descent.the black: The black ball.The edge of home platea type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make black, to blacken.To apply blacking to something.To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Example sentence: I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do.

We hope you now know whether to use Grim or Black in your sentence.

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