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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 :   [ gcide ]

  Grim \Grim\ (gr[i^]m), a. [Compar. Grimmer (-m[~e]r); superl.
     Grimmest (-m[e^]st).] [AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv.
     to G. & D. grimmig, Dan. grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr,
     G. gram grief, as adj., hostile; cf. Gr. ?, a crushing sound,
     ? to neigh.]
     Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
     cruel; frightful; horrible.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           The ridges of grim war.                  --Milton.
  
     Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
          frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
          sour.
          [1913 Webster]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) :   [ web1913 ]

  Grim \Grim\, a. [Compar. Grimmer (-mer); superl. Grimmest.]
     [AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv. to G. & D. grimmig, Dan.
     grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr, G. gram grief, as adj.,
     hostile; cf. Gr. ?, a crushing sound, ? to neigh.]
     Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
     cruel; frightful; horrible.
  
           Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
  
           The ridges of grim war.                  --Milton.
  
     Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
          frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
          sour.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 :   [ wn ]

  grim
       adj 1: 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" [syn: inexorable, relentless,
               stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting]
       2: 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" [syn: ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre]
       3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
          "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...
          to savage mordant wit" [syn: black, mordant]
       4: 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" [syn:
           blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting,
           gloomy]
       5: 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 [syn:
          dour, forbidding]
       6: 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" [syn: gloomy, darkening]
       [also: grimmest, grimmer]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     Αγγλικά a.
     ζοφερός, δυσοίωνος, για σκληρή πραγματικότητα/κατάσταση

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  -grim-
     Garo article
     together

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     Danish a.
     1 ugly, unsightly
     2 nasty
     Kalasha vb.
     taking
     Old English a.
     (alt form ang grimm)

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Grim
     n.
     (surname en English)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     a.
     1 dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
     2 rigid and unrelenting.
     3 ghastly or sinister.
     4 disgusting; gross.
     5 (lb en obsolete) fierce, cruel, furious.
     n.
     (tlb en MLE slang probably a fashionable word around 2006 now
  dated) A promiscuous woman.
     vb.
     (lb en transitive rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding
  aspect to.
     n.
     1 (lb en obsolete) anger, wrath.
     2 (lb en obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]

  Grim
     n.
     (surname en English)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     Danish a.
     1 ugly, unsightly
     2 nasty
     Norwegian Nynorsk a.
     (l en grim), ugly, unsightly
     Norwegian Nynorsk n.
     (lb nn folklore) a kind of wight
     Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
     (infl of nn grime  imp)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]

  Grim
     n.
     (surname en English)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     Danish a.
     1 ugly, unsightly
     2 nasty
     Norwegian Nynorsk a.
     (l en grim), ugly, unsightly
     Norwegian Nynorsk n.
     (lb nn folklore) a kind of wight
     Norwegian Nynorsk vb.
     (infl of nn grime  imp)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]

  Grim
     n.
     (surname en English)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     Muinaisenglanti a.
     1 väkivaltainen, raju
     2 hirveä
     Tanska a.
     1 ruma
     2 inhottava

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  grim
     Engelska a.
     1 barsk, bister, bitter, dyster, svår, sträng, hård, grym
     2 kuslig, ruskig, otäck
     3 (tagg språk=en brittisk engelska slang) äcklig
     Fornengelska a.
     hård, svår, fruktansvärd

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) :   [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]

  Grim-
     Fornsvenska pre.
     (tagg kat=namnleder språk=gmq-fsv) en namnled som bildar personnamn

From Danish-English FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3.1 :   [ freedict:dan-eng ]

  grim /ɡʁˈʔem/ 
  nasty, ugly

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ara ]

  Grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  متجهم

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-bul ]

  grim //ɡɹɪm// 
  1. неприветлив, строг, суров
  dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
  2. зловещ, мрачен
  ghastly or sinister
  3. неумолим, непреклонен
  rigid and unrelenting

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/ 
  neradostný

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 :   [ freedict:eng-ces ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/ 
  chmurný

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  düster, trübe, trostlos, bitter 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  grauenvoll, grauenhaft 

From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 :   [ freedict:eng-deu ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  grimmig, ernst, verbissen 
        "a grim laughter"  - ein grimmiges Lachen
   see: grimmer, grimmest
  

From English - Modern Greek XDXF/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:eng-ell ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  
  μοβόρικος, σκληρός, αυστηρός, ανελέητος, φριχτός

From English-suomi FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-fin ]

  grim //ɡɹɪm// 
  synkeä 2.
  dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
   3.
  ghastly or sinister
   4.
  rigid and unrelenting

From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 :   [ freedict:eng-hin ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/ 
  1. भयानक
        "The future seems to be grim."

From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 :   [ freedict:eng-hrv ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  mrgodan, rđav, strašan, svirep

From English-Hungarian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.1 :   [ freedict:eng-hun ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  1. rémisztô
  2. rendíthetetlen
  3. félelmetes
  4. hátborzongató
  5. ádáz
  6. marcona
  7. bôsz
  8. borzalmas
  9. rettenetes
  10. zordon
  11. kíméletlen
  12. nyomasztó
  13. hajthatatlan
  14. kegyetlen
  15. zord
  16. dühöngô
  17. eltökélt
  18. elkeseredett
  19. sötét
  20. ijesztô
  21. gyászos
  22. mogorva
  23. vad
  24. fenyegetô
  25. szilárd
  26. mord

From English - Polish Piotrowski+Saloni/FreeDict dictionary ver. 0.2 :   [ freedict:eng-pol ]

  grim /grɪm/ 
   1.  ponury
   2.  przygnębiający
   3.  zacięty, surowy

From English-Svenska FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 :   [ freedict:eng-swe ]

  grim //ɡɹɪm// 
  1. barsk
  2. grådaskig, kylig
  dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
  3. kuslig
  ghastly or sinister
  4. stenhård
  rigid and unrelenting

From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 :   [ freedict:eng-tur ]

  grim /ɡɹˈɪm/
  1. (mer, mest) vahşi, gaddar, merhametsiz, zalim
  2. çirkin, suratsız
  3. ümitsiz
  4. korkunç, kerih
  5. boyun eğmez, yavuz, çetin. grimly  zulüm altında bütün kuvvetiyle çaIışarak
  6. gaddarca, vahşiyane. grimness  gaddarlık, zulüm.

From Norwegian Nynorsk-Norwegian Bokmål FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.1 :   [ freedict:nno-nob ]

  grim
  grim

From IPA:en_US :   [ IPA:en_US ]

  

/ˈɡɹɪm/

From IPA:nb :   [ IPA:nb ]

  

/gɾɪm/

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :   [ moby-thesaurus ]

  293 Moby Thesaurus words for "grim":
     Spartan, Spartanic, adamant, adamantine, affording no hope,
     alarming, anguished, anxious, apathetic, appalling, astounding,
     astringent, atrocious, austere, authoritarian, awe-inspiring,
     awesome, awful, baneful, barbarous, barfy, beastly, beetle-browed,
     black, black-browed, bleak, bloodthirsty, bored, brutal, brutish,
     bum, cast-iron, certain, cheerless, cheesy, cold, comfortless,
     crappy, creepy, cruel, crummy, dark, dead set, decided, decorous,
     dejected, demanding, demure, depressed, despairing, desperate,
     despondent, determined, dire, direful, dirty, disconsolate,
     discontented, disgusted, dismal, dogged, dour, dread, dreaded,
     dreadful, drear, drearisome, dreary, dumpish, earnest, eerie, evil,
     evil-favored, evil-looking, exacting, exigent, fell, feral,
     ferocious, fiendish, fierce, firm, fixed, flagitious, flinty,
     forbidding, foreboding, forlorn, formal, formidable, frightening,
     frightful, frowning, funebrial, funereal, ghastly, ghoulish,
     gloomy, glowering, glum, godawful, goshawful, grave, gray,
     grim-faced, grim-visaged, grisly, grotesque, gruesome, grum, hairy,
     hard, hard-core, hard-favored, hard-featured, hard-visaged,
     harrowing, harsh, headstrong, heartless, heinous, hideous,
     homicidal, hopeless, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific,
     horrifying, humorless, icky, ill-favored, ill-featured,
     ill-looking, immovable, immutable, implacable, impliable,
     in bad humor, in despair, inclement, inelastic, inevitable,
     inexorable, infestive, inflexible, inhuman, inhumane, iniquitous,
     intractable, intransigent, iron, irreconcilable, joyless,
     loathsome, long-faced, lowering, lurid, macabre, melancholy,
     merciless, meticulous, mirthless, miserable, monstrous, moodish,
     moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morbid, morose, mortal, mumpish,
     murderous, nauseated, nauseous, obdurate, obstinate, offensive,
     ominous, out of humor, out of sorts, pitiless, pleasureless,
     prey to malaise, punk, putrid, redoubtable, relentless, repelled,
     repugnant, repulsive, resolute, revolted, revolting, rigid,
     rigorous, rock-ribbed, rotten, rough, rugged, ruthless, sad,
     saturnine, savage, schrecklich, scowling, sedate, serious, set,
     severe, shitty, shocking, sickened, sinister, sober, sober-minded,
     sobersided, solemn, somber, sombrous, sorry, sorryish, staid,
     steadfast, steely, stern, stiff, stinking, stinky, stone-faced,
     stony, straight-faced, strict, stringent, stubborn,
     suffering angst, sulky, sullen, surly, terrible, terrific,
     terrifying, thoughtful, tough, tragic, tremendous, triste,
     truculent, unaffected, unalterable, unappeasable, unbending,
     unchangeable, uncheerful, uncheery, uncompromising, uneasy,
     unflinching, unforgiving, unfulfilled, ungentle, ungiving,
     ungratified, unhappy, unhopeful, unjoyful, unmirthful, unmoved,
     unmoving, unprepossessing, unquiet, unrelenting, unsatisfied,
     unsmiling, unsparing, unspeakable, unwavering, unyielding, vicious,
     vindictive, violent, vomity, weariful, wearisome, weary, weighty,
     wicked, without hope, wolfish, wretched, yecchy
  
  

From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary :   [ stardic ]

  a. 冷酷的,残忍的,可怕的;

From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary :   [ xdict ]

     a. 冷酷的,残忍的,可怕的,讨厌的,坚强的

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