"the future looked grim for the couple, as they drifted along in the lifeboat, with no food nor water to speak of
a term that is typically used to define something that radiates hopelessness, or produces an aura of unfortunate circumstances to come
""the future looked grim for the couple, as they drifted along in the lifeboat, with no food nor water to speak of" What is the definition of "grim"?