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grim
/ɡɹɪm/
adj 5noun 3verb 1name 1
Collocations
5ADJ.
all, fun, many, northern, pretty
VERB + GRIM
don't, face, look, looked, looking, make, said, voices
GRIM + NOUN
customers, expression, fadil, girl, gore, horror, proceedings, reaper
PREP.
from, in, in, into, with
ADV.
already
Definitions
adj
1
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).
2
Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
3
Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
There was, I thought, a trace of very profound and very genuine irony in the timbre—not the flashy, meaninglessly jaunty pseudo-irony of the callow "sophisticate," which Derby had habitually affected, but something grim, basic, pervasive and potentially evil.
4
Disgusting; gross.
– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; […]
5
Fierce, cruel, furious.
verb
1
To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
noun
1
A promiscuous woman.
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
Thesaurus
Synonyms
adjective — not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- inexorable
- relentless
- stern
- unappeasable
- unforgiving
- unrelenting
adjective — harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance
Antonyms
Idioms & Phrases
Example Bank
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Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
Wiktionary02
Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic
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Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to
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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
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From the doctor's grim expression, it was clear he had somber news for the patient.
Tatoeba · #198906
Marcia looked grim when I told her the story.
Tatoeba · #32993Usage Notes
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