grim
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
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”).
Adjective edit
grim (comparative grimmer, superlative grimmest)
- Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- 2019 August 30, Jonathan Watts, “Amazon fires show world heading for point of no return, says UN”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Cristiana Paşca Palmer, the executive secretary of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, said the destruction of the world’s biggest rainforest was a grim reminder that a fresh approach needed to stabilise the climate and prevent ecosystems from declining to a point of no return, with dire consequences for humanity.
- 2022 January 12, Nigel Harris, “Comment: Unhappy start to 2022”, in RAIL, number 948, page 3:
- It's been a grim start to the year.
- Rigid and unrelenting.
- His grim determination enabled him to win.
- Ghastly or sinister.
- A grim castle overshadowed the village.
- 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- Disgusting; gross.
- – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
– Mate, that is grim!
- 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 1, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC, page 1:
- Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet;
- (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
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Translations edit
dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
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rigid and unrelenting
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ghastly or sinister
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Verb edit
grim (third-person singular simple present grims, present participle grimming, simple past and past participle grimmed)
- (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Noun edit
grim (plural grims)
- (MLE, slang, probably a fashionable word around 2006, now dated) A promiscuous woman.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:promiscuous woman
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English grim, grym, greme, from Old English *grimu, *grimmu, grima, from Proto-Germanic *grimmį̄ (“anger, wrath”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grimme, Middle High German grimme f (“anger”), modern German Grimm m.
Noun edit
grim (countable and uncountable, plural grims)
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Danish edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse grimmr, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
grim
Inflection edit
| Inflection of grim | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative | |
| Indefinte common singular | grim | grimmere | grimmest2 |
| Indefinite neuter singular | grimt | grimmere | grimmest2 |
| Plural | grimme | grimmere | grimmest2 |
| Definite attributive1 | grimme | grimmere | grimmeste |
| 1) When an adjective is applied predicatively to something definite, the corresponding "indefinite" form is used. 2) The "indefinite" superlatives may not be used attributively. | |||
Kalasha edit
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grim
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Norse grimmr, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
grim (masculine and feminine grim, neuter grimt, definite singular and plural grimme, comparative grimmare, superlative grimmast, definite superlative grimmaste)
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Etymology 2 edit
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Noun edit
grim m (definite singular grimen, indefinite plural grimar, definite plural grimane)
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
grim
- imperative of grime
References edit
- “grim” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English edit
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
grim (superlative grimmest)
- Alternative form of grimm
Declension edit
Declension of grim — Strong
Declension of grim — Weak