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Etymology
From OE. #Old English|grim.

Pronunciation
IPA|/grɪm/
audio|en-us-grim.ogg|Audio (US)

:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪm|-ɪm

Adjective
en-adj|grimm|er

1. dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding

#* It was grim in the northern industrial town

1. rigid and unrelenting

#* His grim determination enabled him to win

1. ghastly or sinister

#* The grim castle overshadowed the village

Translations
Finnish: synkkä (1), tuima (2), kauhea (3)
Maori: muha

Danish

Adjective
grim

1. ugly

Old English

Etymology
From Germanic *grimmaz, from Indo-European *ghrem- �to thunder�. Cognate with Old Saxon #Old Saxon|grim, Old High German #Old High German|grim (German grimm), Old Norse grimmr (Danish #Danish|grim), Swedish grym; and with Greek ��εμίζ�, Old Church Slavonic г��мѣ�и (Russian г�еме��), Latvian gremt.

Pronunciation
IPA|/grɪm/
audio|en-us-grim.ogg|Audio (US)

Adjective
grim

1. fierce, severe, terrible

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