English Explanatory Dictionary

grim

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  2. Rigid and unrelenting.
  3. Ghastly or sinister.
  4. Disgusting; gross.
  5. Fierce, cruel, furious.
verb
  1. To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
noun
  1. A promiscuous woman.
noun
  1. Anger, wrath.
  2. A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
name
  1. An English surname

Pronunciation

/ɡɹɪm/ En-us-grim.ogg

Word forms

grim grimmer grimmest grims grimming grimmed

Etymology

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”).

Synonyms

bleak harsh cheerless comfortless dark morose depressing desolate dire disconsolate dismal doleful dolesome drear drearisome dreary dreich forlorn gayless gray gloomsome gloomy grim joyless lack-laughter lugubrious melancholy mirthless miserable no joke saturnine solemn somber sombre spiritless sullen sunless uncheerful uncheery unhappy unmerry wintry woeful brutal callous cold cold-eyed cruel dour flint-hearted forbidding frosty hard hard-boiled hardened hardhearted heartless humorless icy iron-hearted

Related words

Grims Gryms Gryme Grime Grymes Grimes

Derived words

grimdark grim-gram grimlike grimly grimmish grimness Grim Reaper grimsome grim-the-collier grim trigger it's grim up north like grim death grimful grimless
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