grim

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty

   grim determination

2. 2
   adj

   Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

   Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.

3. 3
   adj

   Rigid and unrelenting.

   His grim determination enabled him to win.

4. 4
   adj

   Ghastly or sinister.

   A grim castle overshadowed the village.

5. 5
   adj

   Disgusting; gross.

   – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? – Mate, that is grim!

6. 6
   adj

   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.

7. 7
   noun

   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

8. 8
   adj

   shockingly repellent

Etymology

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.