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Definitions for Grim

[1] stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise: grim determination; grim necessity.
[2] of a sinister or ghastly character; repellent: a grim joke.
[3] having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air: a grim man but a just one; a grim countenance.
[4] fierce, savage, or cruel: War is a grim business.
[5] stern; resolute grim determination
[6] harsh or formidable in manner or appearance
[7] harshly ironic or sinister grim laughter
[8] cruel, severe, or ghastly a grim accident
[9] archaic , or poetic fierce a grim warrior
[10] informal unpleasant; disagreeable
[11] hold on like grim death to hold very firmly or resolutely

Words related to Grim

gloomy, harsh, horrid, sour, somber, terrible, cruel, glum, grisly, ghastly, stern, gruesome, shocking, ominous, bleak, austere, barbarous, cantankerous, churlish, crusty

Words nearby Grim

grillparzer, grillroom, grillwork, grillé, grilse, grim, grim dig, grim reaper, grimace, grimaldi, grimaldi man

Origin of Grim

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German grimm, Old Norse grimmr

Other words from Grim

grim·ly , adverb
grim·ness , noun

Word origin for Grim

Old English grimm; related to Old Norse grimmr, Old High German grimm savage, Greek khremizein to neigh

Synonyms for Grim

bleak, cruel, ghastly, gloomy, glum, grisly, gruesome, harsh, horrid, ominous, shocking, somber, sour, stern, terrible, austere, barbarous, cantankerous, churlish, crabbed, crusty, dogged, ferocious, fierce, forbidding, foreboding, formidable, frightful, funereal, glowering, grouchy, grumpy, hideous, implacable, inexorable, intractable, merciless, morose, relentless, resolute, ruthless, scowling, severe, sinister, splenetic, stubborn, sulky, sullen, surly, truculent, unrelenting, unyielding