grim

Meaning

Adj

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

Verb

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

Noun

A promiscuous woman.

Noun

1. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) Anger, wrath.
2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.

Synonyms

stern

gloomy

dismal

cruel

fierce

blue

bleak

serious

disconsolate

gruesome

dark

brutal

drab

ghastly

unkind

macabre

atrocious

grisly

merciless

barbarian

bloodthirsty

forbidding

black

inexorable

inhuman

incisive

dreary

drear

sullen

harsh

barbarous

unrelenting

sick

🤢

dour

dispirited

sorry

solemn

ghoulish

dingy

somber

stark

depressed

low-spirited

mordant

heartless

low

nasty

down in the mouth

downhearted

downcast

Translations

sinistre

grimmig

severo

tetro

macabro

truce

arcigno

makaber

düster

grifagno

macabre

grimmig

sinistro

austero

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɹɪm/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: grim

Inherited from Old English: grimm

In summary

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”).