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Grim

//ɡɹɪm// adj, name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

    "Life was grim in many northern industrial towns."

  2. 2
    Rigid and unrelenting.

    "His grim determination enabled him to win."

  3. 3
    Ghastly or sinister.

    "A grim castle overshadowed the village."

  4. 4
    Disgusting; gross.

    "– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!"

  5. 5
    Fierce, cruel, furious. obsolete
Adjective
  1. 1
    shockingly repellent; inspiring horror wordnet
  2. 2
    causing dejection wordnet
  3. 3
    filled with melancholy and despondency wordnet
  4. 4
    not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty wordnet
  5. 5
    harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance wordnet
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  1. 6
    harshly ironic or sinister wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    An English surname
Noun
  1. 1
    A promiscuous woman. Multicultural-London-English, dated, slang

    "You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong) But you didn't know your girl was a grim […] Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting"

  2. 2
    Anger, wrath. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  3. 3
    A specter, ghost, haunting spirit. countable, obsolete, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to. rare, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).

Etymology 3

From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).

Etymology 4

From Middle English grim, grym, greme, from Old English *grimu, *grimmu, grima, from Proto-Germanic *grimmį̄ (“anger, wrath”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grimme, Middle High German grimme f (“anger”), modern German Grimm m.

Etymology 5

Probably derived from Old English *Grīm, Old Norse Grímr (literally “masked person”).

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