GRIM meaning: Harsh, bleak, and forbidding appearance

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word grim:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

grim: Merriam-Webster.com
grim: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
grim: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
grim: Collins English Dictionary
grim: Vocabulary.com
Grim, grim: Wordnik
grim: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Grim, grim: Wiktionary
grim: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
grim: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
grim: Infoplease Dictionary
Grim, grim: Dictionary.com
grim: Online Etymology Dictionary
grim: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
GRIM, Grim (band), Grim (disambiguation), Grim (musical), Grim: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Grim: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
grim: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
grim: Rhymezone
grim: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
grim: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Grim: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
grim: Free Dictionary
grim: Mnemonic Dictionary
Grim, grim: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
grim: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

Warhammer Dwarven Word List (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

grim: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

grim: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)

GRIM: Acronym Finder
AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
grim: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)

GRIM, Grim: Cytokines & Cells Online Pathfinder Encyclopaedia

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)

grim: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
grim, the grim: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ adjective:  Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
▸ adjective:  Rigid and unrelenting.
▸ adjective:  Ghastly or sinister.
▸ adjective:  Disgusting; gross.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
▸ verb:  (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
▸ noun:  (MLE, slang, probably a fashionable word around 2006, now dated) A promiscuous woman.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Anger, wrath.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
▸ noun:  An English surname

Similar:

gloomy, dour, ghastly, depressing, grisly, gruesome, alarming, stern, dismal, sarcastic, more...

Opposite:

cheerful, bright, hopeful, pleasant, joyful

Phrases:

Grim Reaper, grim faced, grim visaged, the grim reaper, like grim death, more...

Adjectives:

old, poor, same, dear, brave, good, faithful, bald, skull, young, fairy

Colors:

black, charcoal, slate gray, dark gray, ash gray, gunmetal, onyx, midnight blue, maroon, burgundy

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