Definitions for grim
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Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:3.7 / 3 votes

1. grim, inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelentingadjective

   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"

2. ghastly, grim, grisly, gruesome, macabre, sickadjective

   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"

3. black, grim, mordantadjective

   harshly ironic or sinister

   "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

4. dour, forbidding, grimadjective

   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

5. gloomy, grim, blue, depressed, dispirited, down(p), downcast, downhearted, down in the mouth, low, low-spiritedadjective

   filled with melancholy and despondency

   "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"; "lonely and blue in a strange city"; "depressed by the loss of his job"; "a dispirited and resigned expression on her face"; "downcast after his defeat"; "feeling discouraged and downhearted"

6. blue, dark, dingy, disconsolate, dismal, gloomy, grim, sorry, drab, drear, drearyadjective

   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"

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. grimadjective

   dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding

2. grimadjective

   rigid and unrelenting

3. grimadjective

   ghastly or sinister

4. Grimnoun

   An English surname

5. Etymology: From grim.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRIMadjective

   Etymology: grimma, Saxon.

   1. Having a countenance of terrour; horrible; hideous; frightful.

   The innocent prey in haste he does forsake,
   Which quit from death, yet quakes in every limb,
   With change of fear to see the lion look so grim. F. Queen.

   Thou hast a grim appearance, and thy face
   Bears a command in’t. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

   Their dear causes
   Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm
   Excite the mortified man. William Shakespeare, Macbeth.

   What if the breath that kindled those grim fires,
   Awak’d, should blow them into sevenfold rage? John Milton.

   Expert to turn the sway
   Of battle, open when and where to close
   The ridges of grim war. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vi.

   He that dares to die,
   May laugh at the grim face of law and scorn,
   The cruel wrinkle of a tyrant brow. John Denham, Sophy.

   Their swarthy hosts would darken all our plains,
   Doubling the native horrour of the war,
   And making death more grim. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   2. Ugly; ill-looking.

   Grim visag’d war hath smooth’d his wrinkl’d front. William Shakespeare.

   Venus was like her mother; for her father is but grim. William Shakespeare.

WikipediaRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRIM

   GRIM (Groupe de recherche et d'improvisation musicales, roughly translated Group of Research and Musical Innovation), was a non-profit institute for improvised and experimental music. The GRIM was based at the Montévidéo, a cultural centre in Marseille, France.The GRIM is a voluntary association (association loi de 1901), founded in 1978 by guitarist-composer Jean-Marc Montera and funded by the city of Marseille with a focus on organising musical events. The organisation hosted concerts, workshops, lectures, artist in residence projects and studio recording sessions, in addition to having a multimedia public library with books and music relating to avant garde music, experimental music, improvised music, sound art and contemporary music. It previously helped organise the festivals Nuit d'Hiver and Sonic Protest. Allmusic bio about Montera As of March 2017, the GRIM has been absorbed into the gmem CNCM, another creative institute also located in Marseille.

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1. grim

   Grim refers to something that is unpleasant, depressing, severe, or menacing in character or appearance. It can also describe something associated with death or harshness. It often describes situations, expressions, and emotions that are stern, gloomy, or without hope.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grim

   of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Grim

   grim, adj. of forbidding aspect: ferocious: ghastly: sullen: stern, unyielding.—adv. Grim′ly.—n. Grim′ness. [A.S. grim; Ger. grimmig—grimm, fury, Dut. grimmig, Ice. grimmr.]

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1. grim

   Song lyrics by grim -- Explore a large variety of song lyrics performed by grim on the Lyrics.com website.

2. GRIM

   What does GRIM stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the GRIM acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. GRIM

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Grim is ranked #4771 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Grim surname appeared 7,418 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 3 would have the surname Grim.
   
   91.4% or 6,785 total occurrences were White.
   4% or 303 total occurrences were Black.
   1.7% or 129 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   1.5% or 115 total occurrences were of two or more races.
   0.6% or 51 total occurrences were American Indian or Alaskan Native.
   0.4% or 35 total occurrences were Asian.

British National Corpus

1. Adjectives Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'grim' in Adjectives Frequency: #964

How to pronounce grim?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of grim in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of grim in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of grim in a Sentence

1. President George H.W. Bush:

   I remember very quiet nights at the dinner table, george was weighing grim scenarios and ominous intelligence about potentially even more devastating attacks.

2. Tony Blair:

   It's a grim business, it's awful, it's really awful.

3. George Piro:

   The FBI is a family and our chosen profession is fraught with danger, today, this grim reality has taken two of our best from our family. We are saddened by their loss as we struggleto come to terms with what happened.

4. Jeff King:

   Father Josiah Trenham said. The incident took place on April 12, some four months after a terror attack left 14 dead in nearby San Bernardino, and just over three months before a French priest was killed by ISIS-linked jihadists in his church. The events, whether far or near, underscore a grim new reality for pastors such as Father Josiah Trenham : Instead of offering sanctuary from evil, churches could in fact be attractive targets for terror. Many churches are now hiring self-defense instructors for classes or security guards that include off-duty police, said Ryan Mauro, a professor of Homeland Security at Liberty University and national security analyst for the Clarion Project. If you are an Islamist terrorist seeking self-glory, executing a priest will bring you more attention than executing an average civilian. While no lethal terror attacks have occurred inside a U.S. church to date, experts like Jeff King, president of International Christian Concern, notes the threat tally is growing. I'm pretty sure there will be attacks in the future, until [ radical Islam is defeated ], we can expect Christians, including in the West, to rationally tighten security measures and try to protect themselves from attack. In February, Khial Abu-Rayyan, 21, of Dearborn Heights, Mich., was arrested after Khial Abu-Rayyan told an undercover The FBI agent Khial Abu-Rayyan was preparing to shoot up a major church near Khial Abu-Rayyan home on behalf of ISIS. A month earlier, the Rev. Roger Spradlin of Valley Baptist Church – one of the biggest congregations in Bakersfield, Calif. – told attendees that they had received a threat written in Arabic. Undercover officers were then placed during worship services.

5. Adele Warton:

   Some of our protesters have been coming here for years. We've got a little old lady who knits little booties and puts them in the bush outside, they'll often be outside with big placards of fetuses post-abortion. It's very visually grim.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=grim
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Grim
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=grim
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grim
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grim
7. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=grim
8. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
   https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html