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grim

Pronunciation: /ɡɹɪm/

The English word “grim” has 9 meanings listed here.

adjective

  1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
  2. Rigid and unrelenting.
  3. Ghastly or sinister.
  4. Disgusting; gross.
  5. Fierce, cruel, furious.

verb

  1. To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.

noun

  1. A promiscuous woman.
  2. Anger, wrath.
  3. A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.

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”).

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