Sekirov Dictionary

grim

/ɡɹɪm/

adjective 5
noun 3
verb 1
forms 5

adjective5

•
Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
•
Ghastly or sinister.
- A grim castle overshadowed the village.
•
Rigid and unrelenting.
- His grim determination enabled him to win.
•
Disgusting; gross.
- – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!
•
(no longer used) Fierce, cruel, furious.
- The LORDE shall be grymme vpon them, and destroye all the goddes in the londe. And all the Iles of the Heithen shal worshipe him, euery man in his place. — 1535

noun3

•
(slang, old-fashioned) A promiscuous woman.
- You got a new girl and she looks choong (Choong) But you didn't know your girl was a grim […] Your girl she's a grim, I wouldn't have no grim as my ting — 2006
(no longer used) Anger, wrath.
(no longer used) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.

verb1

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

forms

grimmed · grimming · grims · grimmer · grimmest

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