Added 8 October 2026
grim
/ɡɹɪm/ adjective
In Latin: torvus Wiktionary
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Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
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Rigid and unrelenting.
His grim determination enabled him to win.
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Ghastly or sinister.
A grim castle overshadowed the village.
verb
- To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
noun
- A promiscuous woman.
noun
Origin
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”).
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