grim
IPA: grˈɪm
noun
- (MLE, slang, probably a fashionable word around 2006, now dated) A promiscuous woman.
- (obsolete) Anger, wrath.
- (obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
- An English surname
verb
- (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
adjective
- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Rigid and unrelenting.
- Ghastly or sinister.
- Disgusting; gross.
- (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
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Examples of "grim" in Sentences
- Advisers sigh in relief after grim 2012.
- He controls the power of the grim reaper.
- Oprah asked with a sort of grim geniality.
- Despite this, the future of the city seemed grim.
- Without a drummer the future of the band was grim.
- In most tales, the saved interlopers face a grim fate.
- That grim vignette is not the real source of the opera's action.
- The shape of the Rune is similar to a grim reaper with a scythe.
- A grim reminder of the minefields to the south is the bomb disposal unit.
- Given the cancer treatments available at the time, the prognosis was grim.
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