grim
Plural: grims
Adjective Satellite
- not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty
- "grim determination"
- "grim necessity"
- shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
- "the grim aftermath of the bombing"
- "the grim task of burying the victims"
- harshly ironic or sinister
- "a grim joke"
- "grim laughter"
- harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; ; ; ; - J.M.Barrie
- "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"
- "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"
- filled with melancholy and despondency
- "took a grim view of the economy"
- causing dejection
- "grim rainy weather"
Adj
- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Rigid and unrelenting.
- Ghastly or sinister.
- Disgusting; gross.
- Fierce, cruel, furious.
Verb
- To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Noun
- A promiscuous woman.
- Anger, wrath.
- A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
Adjective
- Stern, unyielding, or dark and forbidding in appearance.
Examples
- A grim castle overshadowed the village.
- His grim determination enabled him to win.
- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- The grim expression on his opponent’s face signaled a powerful upcoming play.
- – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
Origin / 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
black, blue, dark, depressed, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, dour, down, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, drab, drear, dreary, forbidding, ghastly, gloomy, grisly, gruesome, inexorable, low, low-spirited, macabre, mordant, relentless, sick, sorry, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting, 304, Athanasian wench, Cyprian, Essex girl, Fulham virgin, LBFM, NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., Quicumque vult, abandoned, abhorrant, abhorrent, adamantine, alley cat, alleycat, amoret, amorette, amorosa, arrant, article, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, bateless, bleak, blowsabella, bop, callous, cheerless, chilling, chippy, cockslut, cockwhore, cocotte, cold, cold-eyed, comfortless, concrete, creepy, crumpet, cum dumpster, cumguzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, deleterious, demimondaine, depraved, depressing, desolate, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, dire, disgusting, distasteful, doleful, dolesome, doxy, drearisome, dreich, eager beaver, eldritch, evil, ferocious, firm, flagitious, flint-hearted, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, forboding, forlorn, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, foul, freakish, frightening, frosty, fuckstress, fulsome, gayless, geebag, giglot, gill, gillian, gloomsome, good-time girl, granitic, gray, grim, grisette, gro, grody, gross, grotty, hard, hard-boiled, hardened, hardhearted, harlot, harmful, harsh, heartless, ho, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoochie, hoochie mama, hood rat, humorless, hussy, icy, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incontestable, incorrigible, inflexible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, insensitive, invincible, iron-hearted, irresistible, jade, jay, jillflirt, joyless, knavish, lack-laughter, lady of light virtue, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, lithic, little brown fucking machine, loathsome, loose woman, lorette, lugubrious, mab, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, manizer, melancholy, minx, mirthless, miserable, moll, mort wap-apace, munted, nasty, nauseous, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no joke, no-good, nymphomaniac, obnoxious, offensive, offputting, overpowering, overwhelming, painted Jezebel, peccaminous, pernicious, persistent, potent, puissant, puta, puzzel, quean, quiff, raging, reprehensible, reprobate, repulsive, resistant, revolting, rig, rigid, rigorous, robust, rockhearted, satanic, saturnine, savage, scabrous, scag, scary, scathful, scrubber, severe, sickening, sinful, sinister, skank, sket, skettle, skit, slag, slapper, slattern, sloven, slut, slutbag, solemn, solid, somber, sombre, sordid, spiritless, spooky, stale, stiff, stonehearted, stony, stonyhearted, stout, streel, strict, strident, strumpet, sturdy, sullen, sunless, sweet cheeks, tart, tartlet, thot, thotty, tough, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trollop, trull, unbending, uncheerful, uncheery, ungodly, unhappy, unholy, unmerry, unmoved, unpleasant, unremitting, unsettling, unstoppable, unsympathetic, unyielding, vicious, vile, village bicycle, village bike, villainous, violent, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, wench, whore, wicked, wintry, woeful, wrong
Scrabble Score: 7
grim: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordgrim: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
grim: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary