grim
About 4.82 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- adjective Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
- adjective Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
- adjective Disgusting; gross.
– Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?– Mate, that is grim!
- adjective Fierce, cruel, furious.
- verb To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
- noun A promiscuous woman.
- noun Anger, wrath.
Similar words
gloomy disconsolate depressing cheerless ghastly dismal gruesome grisly macabre dispiriting
Often followed by
and smile determination reality reaper as old satisfaction picture
Word family
grimly grimmer grimmest grimness grimnesses
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