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[ grim ] / grɪm / SEE SYNONYMS FOR grim ON THESAURUS.COM
adjective, grim·mer, grim·mest.stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity. of a sinister or ghastly character; repellent: a grim joke. having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air: a grim man but a just one; a grim countenance. fierce, savage, or cruel: War is a grim business. Origin of grimbefore 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German grimm,Old Norse grimmr SYNONYMS FOR grim1 harsh, unyielding. 2 frightful, horrible, dire, appalling, horrid, grisly, gruesome, hideous, dreadful. 3 severe, stern, hard. 4 ferocious, ruthless. SEE SYNONYMS FOR grim ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR grim1 lenient. 2 attractive. 3 gentle. SEE ANTONYMS FOR grim ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM grimgrimly, adverbgrimness, nounWords nearby grimgrillion, Grillparzer, grillroom, grillwork, grilse, grim, grimace, Grimaldi, Grimaldian, Grimaldi man, grimalkin Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for grimThe grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances. His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison. Castro's Hipster Apologists Want to Keep Cuba ‘Authentically’ Poor|Michael Moynihan|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST The medical record, from an Ebola case, made for grim reading, but Dr. Ian Crozier could not put it down. The Daily Beast’s Best Longreads, Dec 8-14, 2014|William Boot|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST And this is where the plague outbreak does resemble Ebola—as a grim reminder of the consequences of our global interconnectedness. Bubonic Plague Is Back (but It Never Really Left)|Kent Sepkowitz|November 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
All this would be laughable if it weren't for the grim statistics. The Disappearing Cops of East St. Louis|Justin Glawe|November 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST Our military leaders recognised, far sooner than the rest of us, that this war was going to be a grim and desperate business. A Padre in France|George A. Birmingham Daly and Fettin were holding on like grim Death, for the track was rough and the speed unprecedented for that road—a new one. Bamboo Tales|Ira L. Reeves Poverty stood at his hearth,—when Viola's grateful smile and liberal hand came to chase the grim fiend away. Zanoni|Edward Bulwer Lytton Grim legend clings around the account of Lags last illness and his funeral. Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland|J. Maxwell Wood Donald threw himself into the work before him with grim determination. A Romance of Billy-Goat Hill|Alice Hegan Rice
British Dictionary definitions for grim
adjective grimmer or grimmeststern; resolutegrim determination harsh or formidable in manner or appearance harshly ironic or sinistergrim laughter cruel, severe, or ghastlya grim accident archaic, or poetic fiercea grim warrior informal unpleasant; disagreeable hold on like grim death to hold very firmly or resolutely Derived forms of grimgrimly, adverbgrimness, nounWord Origin for grimOld English grimm; related to Old Norse grimmr, Old High German grimm savage, Greek khremizein to neigh Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to grimgloomy, harsh, horrid, sour, somber, terrible, cruel, glum, grisly, ghastly, stern, gruesome, shocking, ominous, bleak, austere, barbarous, cantankerous, churlish, crusty |