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Definition von the grim im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch
Grim: An English surname, probably derived from Old English grimm or Old Norse grimr or grimmr
grim: dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
grim: rigid and unrelenting
grim: A situation or piece of information that is grim is unpleasant, depressing, and difficult to accept. They painted a grim picture of growing crime There was further grim economic news yesterday The mood could not have been grimmer. + grimness grim·ness an unrelenting grimness of tone
grim: {s} unyielding; stern, fierce; merciless, heartless, cruel; horrible, frightful
grim: If you say that something is grim, you think that it is very bad, ugly, or depressing. Things were pretty grim for a time
grim: A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance. the tower blocks on the city's grim edges
grim: If a person or their behaviour is grim, they are very serious, usually because they are worried about something. She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth Her expression was grim and unpleasant
grim: {a} ill-looking, horrible, ugly, sour, crabbed
grim: A giant spectral dog that haunts graveyards
grim: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning to savage mordant wit"
grim: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J M Barrie
grim: ghastly or sinister
grim: Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible
grim: Used to denote any cave trip or cave that is extremely unpleasant "Grim" also usually implies a wet and/or dangerous trip
grim: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds"; "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by madmen"
grim: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions"; "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy"; "the darkening mood"
grim: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war"; "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather"
grim: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern demands of parenthood"
grim: (Giant) in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, part ii He was one who tried to stop pilgrims on their way to the Celestial City, but was slain by Mr Greatheart (See Giants )