grim

Definition of grim in English English dictionary: An English surname, probably derived from Old English grimm or Old Norse grimr or grimmr; dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding; rigid and unrelenting; ghastly or sinister; 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; {s} unyielding; stern, fierce; merciless, heartless, cruel; horrible, frightful; If you say that something is grim, you think that it is very bad, ugly, or depressing. Things were pretty grim for a time; A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance. the tower blocks on the city's grim edges; 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; {a} ill-looking, horrible, ugly, sour, crabbed; A giant spectral dog that haunts graveyards; harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning to savage mordant wit"; 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; Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible; Used to denote any cave trip or cave that is extremely unpleasant "Grim" also usually implies a wet and/or dangerous trip; 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"; 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"; 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"; 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"; (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 )
Grim Reaper: A personification of Death as an old man, or a skeleton, carrying a scythe, taking souls to the afterlife
grim reaper: The personification of death as a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe
Grim File Reaper: LISP-machine utility that automatically removes files from a hard disk, GFR (Computers)
Grim Reaper: The Grim Reaper is an imaginary character who represents death. He looks like a skeleton, wears a long, black cloak with a hood, and carries a scythe. The personification of death as a cloaked man or skeleton carrying a scythe. a name given to Death in stories and literature. He is shown in pictures as a human skeleton in long black clothes that also cover his head, carrying a large scythe (=a tool for cutting crops)
Grim Reaper: angel of death (angel responsible for collecting the souls of human beings when they are to die)
grim death: horrible end, hideous dying, cruel death
grim description: bleak description, description that lacks all joy
grim reaper: Death personified as an old man or a skeleton with a scythe
grimly: In a grim manner
grimly: Grim-looking, grim-natured
In reality it was the most terrifying sight I had seen to date: two fried eggs decorated with ketchup, Tabasco and chopped chillis in the semblance of a pair of bloodshot eyes – I would as soon have eaten my own leg. I waved the grimly thing away.
grimness: The characteristic or quality of being grim
grimly: in a grim implacable manner; "he was grimly satisfied
grimly: Grim; hideous; stern
grimly: In a grim manner; fiercely
grimly: {a} horribly, hideously, sourly, sullenly
grimness: {n} dreadfulness of countenance, sourness
grimly: sternly, unrelentingly; mercilessly, harshly; forbiddingly
grimly: in a grim implacable manner; "he was grimly satisfied"
grimmer: comparative of grim
grimmer: {s} of forbidding aspect; hideous; cruel; frightful; horrible; fierce; surly
grimmest: superlative of grim
grimness: The characterisitc or quality of being grim
grimness: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
grimness: the quality of being ghastly
grimness: {i} formidableness; sternness, severeness, mercilessness; harshness, fierceness
grimness: Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness
hang on like grim death: hold on tightly, hold on with all one's strength