Grim

Definition: Grim

Grim

Adjective

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.

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".

3. Harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit".

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".

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.

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "grim" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Note: Grim \Grim\, adjective. [Comparative Grimmer (-mer); superlative Grimmest.]. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

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Synonyms: Grim

Death

King of terrors, King Death; Death; doom. (necessity); "Hell's grim Tyrant".

Dejection

Serious, sedate, staid, stayed; grave as a judge, grave as an undertaker, grave as a mustard pot; sober, sober as a judge, solemn, demure; grim; grim-faced, grim-visaged; rueful, wan, long-faced.

Discourtesy

Taint, sour, crabbed, sharp, short, trenchant, sarcastic, biting, doggish, caustic, virulent, bitter, acrimonious, venomous, contumelious; snarling; Verb: surly, surly as a bear; perverse; grim, sullen; a; peevish; (irascible).

Pain

Shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing; dreadful, fearful, frightful; thrilling, tremendous, dire; heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening; harrowing, rending.

Sullenness

Grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks; Noun: out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.

Ugliness

Squalid, haggard; grim, grim faced, grim visaged; grisly, ghastly; ghost like, death like; cadaverous, grewsome, gruesome.

Warfare

Noun: warfare; fighting;Verb: hostilities; war, arms, the sword; Mars, Bellona, grim visaged war, horrida bella; bloodshed.

Crosswords: Grim

Albanian (grease paint, make up), Danish (nasty, ugly).

Your tone sounds rather grim. We haven't done anything foolish, have we (Batman; writing credit: Bob Kane; Lorenzo Semple Jr.)

I am no more afraid of the Grim Reaper than a protestant on Mother's Day. (The Life of David Gale; writing credit: Charles Randolph)

In your face Grim Reaper (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert)

And so follows a miserable succession of bugle-blowing prisons, grim reveille-ridden summer camps (Trilogy; writing credit: Truman Capote; Eleanor Perry)

And yet his story is rather grim. (Oedipus Rex; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

Grim Pastures (1944)

The Grim Comedian (1921)

Grim Justice (1916)

The Grim Messenger (1915)

Grim Weekend (2003)

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Books

• Conan and the Grim Grey God (reference)

• Requiem: Grim Harvest (reference)

• The anatomy of organized crime in America; the grim reapers (reference)

• The Grim Pig (reference)

• The Grim Reaper: The Machine-Gun and Machine-Gunners (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Grim (reference)

• Grim Reaper (reference)

• Grim Prairie Tales (reference)

• Thriller: The Grim Reaper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Grim Fandango (Jewel Case) (reference)

• Grim Fandango (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Paul Grim (sitting) and George Peter working on heat probe package OCEANOGRAPHER around the world cruise. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

Grim reaper against red sunset. Credit: Library of Congress.

Man playing chess with grim reaper. Credit: Library of Congress.

If dreams came true. And thanks to fate, the grim jester, he got his wish. Credit: Library of Congress.

Houdini in scenes from "The grim game". Credit: Library of Congress.

This grim reminder wends its way northward, from Chateau Thierry to Soissons. Credit: Library of Congress.

Equipment for a grim game. Medium-caliber guns roll in a growing stream from a large eastern arsenal as the war program reaches full schedule. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Then, with an aspect cold and grim, Regardless of its battered rim, She took it up and gave it him.

Mason gave him another grim look from a vast repertoire he had developed which ranged from very, very blackly grim indeed at the bottom of the scale, all the way up to tiredly resigned and only faintly grim, which he reserved for his children’s birthdays

The grim beadle now made a gesture with his staff

Then grim love of life was roused in some

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Business

Nutritional and health conditions can be grim. (references)

Economic History

Panama

The outlook for the banana industry is grim, absent a radically new working relationship between banana companies and militant unions. (references)

Belgium

Against this grim backdrop, in 1982, Prime Minister Martens' center-right coalition government formulated an economic recovery program to promote export-led growth by enhancing the competitiveness of Belgium's export industries through an 8.5% devaluation. (references)

Panama

In 2000, total CFZ imports rose 6.4% to US$4.3 billion, while total exports rose to $5.1 billion, up 3.8%. Both increases only marginally offset the Zone's grim 1999, in which imports fell 23% and exports dropped 17%. The CFZ's net exports in 2000 decreased 9.7% to US$713 million from $790 million in 1999. The decrease in exports was caused mainly by slowing demand from the CFZ's customers in troubled South American economies particularly Colombia and Ecuador. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "grim": a grim smile ♦ feel grim ♦ grim File Reaper ♦ grim humor ♦ grim humour ♦ grim joke ♦ grim landscapea ♦ grim reaper ♦ hold on like grim death ♦ look grim ♦ the grim reaper. Additional references.

Beginning with "grim": grim-eyed, grim-faced, grim-featured, grim-lipped, grim-looking, grim-set, grim-toothed, grim-visaged, grim-voiced, grim-wah.

Ending with "grim": too-grim.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i pamëshirshëm (dispiteous, flint hearted, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, savage, unmerciful, unrelenting), i ashpër (argute, austere, biting, bluff, bluffy, Brant, bristly, brusque, churlish, coarse, crude, ding-dong, dour, draconian, draconic, gravelly, gruff, hard, harsh, ill, ill natured, inclement, keen, malevolent, pipy, raucous, rigid, rigorous, rough, rough and ready, rude, savage, scabrous, scathing, scratchy, severe, shaggy, slashing, smart, stern, strict, tough, truculent, uncharitable, unkind, unmerciful, violent, wiry). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كالح (gloomy, glum, grave, morose, stern, surly), ‏محبط (depressed, frustrate, frustrated, frustrating, low, spiritless), ‏متجهم (gloomy, glum, morose, sulky, sullen), ‏نحس (bad luck, bumper, illness, jinx, misfortune, ominous, sinister), ‏غاضب (angry, beside himself, cross, dandified, enraged, exasperating, furious, furred, glaring, grumpy, indignant, irate, livid, narky, pink, revolting, stuffy, sullen, wrathful, wroth), ‏شرس (gnarl, ill, pungent, ratty, ruthless, sour, surly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

суров (austere, coarse, crude, dour, draconian, flinty, green, hard, harsh, iron, iron-bound, raw, rigorous, rough, rude, rugged, severe, smart, stiff, uncharitable, uncooked, uncouth, unpitying, unseasoned), строг (astringent, austere, censorious, close, firm, hard, hard and fast, hard-grained, hardhanded, ironclad, narrow, religious, rigid, rigorous, rugged, severe, sinewy, stern, straitlaced, strict, stringent, taut, unaffable, uncharitable), свиреп (ferocious, fierce, lupine, outrageous, rabid, savage, truculent), неумолим (immitigable, implacable, inexorable, inexpiable, relentless, stern, uncharitable, unrelenting, unremitting), неприветлив (austere, chilly, cold, forbidding, stern, unaffable, unapproachable, ungracious, wintry), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references)

Chinese 

嚴峻 (rigorous, severe), 冷酷 , 冷面. (various references)

Czech

zavilý (grimly determined, rancorous), zarputilý (dogged, dour, grimly determined, wrongheaded, wrong-headed), zamraèený (cloudy, dour, gloomy, lowering, nubilous, overcast, sullen), tuhý (hard, rigid, solid, stiff, tenacious, tough), ponurý (black, cheerless, dark, dismal, gaunt, gloomy, lurid, somber, sombre), neochvìjný (staunch, steady, unfailing, unswerving, unwavering), nasupený, krutý (atrocious, bitter, brutal, cruel, dispiteous, extreme, fierce, gory, hard, harsh, heartless, heathenish, rigid, ruthless, savage, severe, torsion, unkind, unrelenting, vicious, wolfish), krušný (hard, uphill), hrozný (abysmal, appalling, atrocious, awful, damnable, dire, dreadful, excruciating, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightful, ghastly, hateful, hellish, horrible, mortal, terrible, terrific, tremendous), dìsný (awful, dreadful, fearsome, great, grisly, gruesome, hair-rising, hairy, horrid, lurid, macabre, unearthly, unholy), chmurný (dismal, drear, dreary, dull, gloomy, Gray, grey), bezútìšný (bleak, cheerless, comfortless, desolate, dreary, gaunt, miserable), úporný (persistent), šibenièní. (various references)

Dutch

grimmig (bleak). (various references)

Esperanto

malafablega. (various references)

Farsi 

ترسناک (Dire, Ghastly, Hideous, Horrid, Lurid, Macabre, Nightmarish, Redoubtable, Terrible, Terrific, Tremendous, Ugsome), سخت (Adjacent, Chronic, Crusty, Demanding, Difficult, Dogged, Dour, Eburnated, Exquisite, Grave, Rigid, Rigorous, Rocky, Rugged, Serious, Severe, Sore, Steely, Stratify, Stringent, Strong, Troublesome), عبوس (Lower, Moody, Morose, Peevish, Rusty, Stern, Sulky, Sullen), ظالم (Cruel, Despot, Heinous, Incubus, Remorseless, Ruthless, Unsparing, Wroth), شوم (Dire, Ghastly, Inauspicious, Infelicitous, Ominous, Unlucky). (various references)

Finnish

tuima (hard, severe, sharp, stern), tuikea (sharp, stern). (various references)

French

triste (Gray), sinistre, sardonique, sévère (grueling), menaçant, macabre (grisly, gruesome), lugubre, abattu. (various references)

German

grimmig (ferocious, fierce, furious, grimly, harsh, morbid, severe, wrathful). (various references)

Greek 

σκληρός (cruel, gruelling, hard, harsh, rough, tough), βλοσυρόσ (stern, tight lipped), μοβόρικος (sullen), φριχτός (ghastly), ανελέητος (ruthless), αυστηρός (austere, hars, rigid, severe, stern, strict, stringent). (various references)

Hebrew 

מחריד (appalling, dreadful, grisly, horrible, horrific, macabre), איום (awful, dire, dreadful, fearful, fell, frightful, hideous, intimidation, menace, terrible, terrific, threat), זועף (angry, enraged, gruff, saturnine, sullen), זועם (angry, furious, wrathful). (various references)

Hungarian

gyászos (calamitous, doleful, elegiac, funereal, gray, grey, lugubrious, mournful, rueful, tragic), kíméletlen (harsh, hell-bent, machiavellian, regardless, to play hardball, uncharitable, unmindful), bősz (exasperated), dühöngő (berserk, frenzied, impetuous, rampageous, raving), elkeseredett (acrimonious, bitter, desperate, disappointed, embittered, heart broken), eltökélt (decided, determined, purposeful, resolute, resolved, unmoved), félelmetes (awe inspiring, awesome, dread, dreadful, fearful, fearsome, forbidding, formidable, frightful, morbid, redoubtable, redoubted, terrific, tremendous), fenyegető (forbidding, louring, loury, threatening), hátborzongató (creepy, eerie, eery, eldritch, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, macabre, morbid, uncanny, weird), ádáz (desperate, fierce, furious), ijesztő (appalling, awful, daunting, dread, dreadful, fearsome, forbidding, gruesome, redoubtable, scary, startling, unearthly), zordon (boisterous), kegyetlen (atrocious, bloody, brutal, brutish, cruel, dispiteous, felon, ferocious, hard, heinous, inhuman, insensate, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, sanguinary, savage, scathing, tigerish, tyrannical), marcona (soldierlike), mogorva (as cross as two sticks, bearish, cheerless, crabbed, criss cross, crusty, disagreeable, disgruntled, grouchy, grousing, gruff, have the sullens, ill tempered, like a bear with a sore head, morose, pouty, saturnine, snapping, snuffy, somber, sulky, sullen, surly, testy), mord (saturnine, sullen), nyomasztó (depressing, gloomy, Gray, grey, grinding, heavy, leaden, mortifying, oppressive, stunning, sweltering), rémisztő (frightening, morbid), rendíthetetlen (firm as a rock, imperturbable, inexorable, insistent, shock-proof, stalwart, stanch, staunch, Stonewall, uncompromising, unflappable, unshakable, unshrinking), sötét (black, black as night, collied, dark, dark-skinned, dim, doldrums, dun, dusky, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, louring, loury, mirk, murk, murky, obscure, of evil omen, puke, saturnine, shady, somber, sombre, stygian, tenebrous), zord (austere, boisterous, boreal, dour, gruff, inclement, mirthless, raw, rigorous, rough, rugged, stern), hajthatatlan (adamant, hard as a flint, hard bitten, have a heart of flint, indomitable, inexorable, inflexible, intractable, intransigent, obdurate, relentless, steely, stiff, stiff in the back, uncomplying, unrelenting, unyielding). (various references)

Indonesian

suram (bleak, dim, dismal, dreary, gloom), kejam (callous, demoniac, demonic, diabolical, ferocious, hard hearted, harsh, inhuman, ruthless). (various references)

Italian

grifagno (grimly), truce (cruel), torvo (glaring), spietato (cruel, hard, merciless, pitiless, remorseless, ruthless, unmerciful, unpitying, unremorseful), spaventoso (appaling, appalling, awesome, awful, dire, direful, dismal, dreadful, dreary, fearful, frightening, ghastly, grisly, horrible, nasty, terrific), sinistro,brutto, sinistro (left, sinister, spooky, unearthly), senza pietà, risoluto (bent, decided, decisive, determined, purposeful, resolute, resolved, steadfast), repellente (distasteful, repellent, repulsive), orribile (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, awful, beastly, dreadful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hideous, horrible, horrific, macabre, revolting, shocking), fosco (dark, dingy, dismal, dull, gloomy, lurid, murky, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen), feroce (ferocious, fierce, murderous, savage, vicious, wild). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

渋い (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, quiet, sober, stingy, sullen, tasteful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しぶい (an aura of refined masculinity, astringent, bitter, quiet, sober, stingy, sullen, tasteful), いかつい (stern), れいげん (foreword, heartless, miracle, miraculous efficacy, miraculous virtue, preface, stark, stern). (various references)

Korean 

냉혹한. (various references)

Manx

grouw (dark, dark-looking, dejected, dismal, forbidding, ghastly, gloomy, glum, surly), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, glum, gruff, mopish, morose, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly), groaishagh (bluff, bluff of person, grunter). (various references)

Norwegian

uhyggelig (ghastly, grisly, lurid), bister. (various references)

Pig Latin

imgray.(various references)

Portuguese

severo (austere, bad, bitter, blue, censorious, close, closet, cornered, dour, grueling, gruelling, hard, hard-faced, hard-grained, harsh, inclement, iron-bound, joggly, keen, pointed, relentless, rigid, rigorous, rough, rugged, scathing, severe, smart, squint-eyed, stern, stiff, strait, straitlaced, strict, stringent), impiedoso (flinty, heartless, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, unrelenting, unsparing), cruel (atrocious, barbaric, bitter, bloody, boarish, candle-wick, cruel, dark, fell, felon, fierce, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, iron, merciless, pitiless, ruffian, ruthless, scathing, severe, shrewish, squint-eyed, tigerish, tigrish, truculent, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unmerciful, wicked, wolfish), austero (austere, budge, hard-faced, hard-grained, rugged, severe, stern, strict), amea�ador. (various references)

Romanian

groaznic (appalling, awful, awfully, baleful, desperate, dire, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, groovy, gruesome, horrendous, horrent, horrible, horribly, horrid, howling, lousy, miserable, miserably, monstrous, sad, scary, shocking, terrible, terribly, vile), sever (austere, close, dour, drastic, exacting, firm, frowning, hard, harsh, keen, narrow, rigid, rigidly, rigorous, rugged, severe, stern, Strait, strict, unrelenting), rebarbativ (crabbed, unprepossessing), necruţãtor (inexpiable, pitiless, relentless, ruthless), neîndurãtor (harsh, inclement, irremovable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, relentlessly, ruthless, unfeeling), macabru (groovy, gruesome, macabre), aprig (cruel, ferocious, fierce, fiery, hard-hearted, harshly, high-spirited, impetuous, passionate, passionately, severe, sharp, truculent, violent). (various references)

Russian 

мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, morose, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone), зловещий (bodeful, direful, ill-omened, inauspicious, ominous, sinister), жуткий (eerie, eery, eldritch, ghastly, ghoulish, grisly, gruesome, macabre, scary, spooky, terrible, terrifying, uncanny), жестокий (atrocious, barbarous, bitter, bloody minded, bloody-minded, brutal, brutish, butcherly, cruel, cutthroat, despiteful, doggish, ferocious, fiendish, fierce, hard bitten, heathenish, heavy-handed, inhuman, inhumane, iron-handed, keen, mortal, satrapic, uncharitable, unfeeling, unkind, unrelenting). (various references)

Scottish

greann (hair, surly look; bristling of hair as on an), grìmeach. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

strog (austere, dour, exacting, finical, finicking, firm, rigid, severe, stern, stiff, strait, strict, stringent), razjaren (enraged, furious, incensed, raging, rampageous, tearing), ljut (angry, bitter, cross, hot, huffish, mad, peppery, pissed, racy, severe). (various references)

Spanish

grave (acute, alarming, bad, court, courtyard, deep, demure, desperate, difficult, dignified, grave, grievous, gross, heavy, important, low, lower, nasty, serious, severe, weighty, yard), siniestro (baleful, ominous, portentous, sinister), severo (astringent, austere, bad, exacting, forbidding, gaunt, grievous, hard, hard-faced, harsh, inexorable, severe, sharp, slashing, stark, stern, strict, stringent, unkind), porfiado (adamant, bossily, obstinate, opinionated), muy reñido (ding-dong, hard, hot), malísimo (dismal, dreadful, ghastly, lousy, moldy, mouldy, pathetic, pathetical, poisonous, putrid, rotten, sad, tacky, wicked), macabro (ghoulish, gruesome, horrible, macabre), inexorable por (remorseless), horrible (abhorrent, abominable, agonizing, alien, appalling, awful, bleak, dire, direful, dirty, dismal, dread, dreary, evil, formidably, foul, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome, hellish, hideous, horrible, horrid, lousy, lurid, moldy, mouldy, nasty, shocking, stinking, terrible, terror, vile, wicked), encarnizado (acerbated, bitter, bloodshot, bloody, cutthroat, red, sharp), ceñudo (beetle-browed, frowning, lowering, scowling), austero (astringent, austere, dour, severe, stern), adusto (forbidding, gaunt, unfriendly, unkind, unneighborly). (various references)

Swedish

hård (adamant, austere, backbreaking, concrete, grueling, gruelling, gruff, hard, harsh, inclement, intemperate, ironbound, keen, obdurate, robust, severe, stern, tenacious, tight, tough, unkind), bister (dour, fierce, inclement, rigorous, severe, stern). (various references)

Thai

ร้ายกาจ. (various references)

Turkish

gaddar (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, draconian, draconic, ferocious, pedrifious), zalim (arbitrary, atrocious, bloody minded, brutal, cruel, cutthroat, daemon, demon, draconian, draconic, fell, felon, fiendish, flinty, heavy, heavy-handed, ill natured, inhuman, miscreant, ogre, oppressive, oppressor, outrageous, persecutor, sanguinary, savage, stony, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical), suratsız (gnarled, grouchy, morose, po-faced, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, ungenial, vinegary), sert (acrid, adamant, astringent, austere, bad, bitter, boisterous, bossy, brisk, brutal, cast iron, crusty, cutting, drastic, exact, exacting, fierce, firm, flinty, forbidding, get-tough, granitic, gruff, gusty, hard, hard and fast, hard bitten, hard line, hard set, hardening, hard-hitting, harsh, heady, heavy, heavy-handed, hot, ill natured, inclement, incompressible, inelastic, intemperate, iron, ironclad, keen, nappy, pointed, pungent, rigid, rigorous, rough, round, sclerous, severe, sharp, sharp-set, short, short-spoken, shrewd, smart, solid, sound, spanking, spartan, spiky, stand up, starched, starchy, stark, stern, stiff, strict, stringent, strong, surly, tart, tough, unbending, ungentle, unkind, unrelenting, unshaded, unyielding, vehement, violent), korkunç (appalling, awesome, awful, cruel, desperate, dire, direful, disastrous, disgusting, dreadfull, eldritch, fearful, fearsome, formidable, frightening, frightful, ghastly, ghoulish, gory, grisly, gruesome, haircurling, hair-raiser, hellish, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrific, lurid, monstrous, redoubtable, scary, shocking, sickening, terrible, terrific, terrifying), acımasız (atrocious, brutal, coldhearted, cruel, cutthroat, dead, despot, ferocious, fiendish, flinty, hard-hearted, harsh, implacable, inclement, inexorable, inhumane, merciless, outrageous, pitiless, relentless, ruthless, slashing, stern, truculent, tyrannic, tyrannical, tyrannous, unmerciful, unpitied, unrelenting, without remorse). (various references)

Ukrainian

рішучий (backboned, categorical, decided, decisive, determinate, determined, drastic, manful, purposeful, purposive, resolute, resolved, stalwart, strong-minded, strong-willed, vigorous), огидний (abhorrent, abject, abominable, accursed, accurst, antipathetic, antipathetical, atrocious, beastly, bilious, brackish, brutal, carrion, damnable, damned, detestable, disgusting, dreadful, evil, execrable, filthy, ghoulish, hanging, heinous, hideous, horrible, horrid, ill-favored, ill-favoured, loathful, loathsome, mawkish, mucky, nasty, nauseating, nauseous, nefandous, noisome, obnoxious, obscene, odious, offensive, pesky, poisonous, putrid, rank, repellent, repulsive, revolting, shocking, snotty, sordid, sour, stinking, underfoot, wicked), невблаганний (adamant, deadly, immitigable, implacable, uncompromising), зловісний (augural, bodeful, dire, disastrous, fateful, inauspicious, ominous, oracular, oraculous, portentous, sinister, sinistrous, unlucky), безжалісний (cold blooded, compassless, devoid of pity, dispiteous, inexorable, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, stony, unmerciful, unrelenting). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tàn nhẫn (cruelly, dispiteous, harsh, merciless, pitiless, relentless, remorseless, ruthless, unfeeling), nhẫn tâm (cold-hearted, coldly, dispiteous, hard-hearted, iron-fisted, iron-hearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonily, unfeeling), dữ tợn (cruel, cruelly, dangerous, ferocious, fierce, towering), ác nghiệt không lay chuyển được. (various references)

horrida. (various references)

biter. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "grim": grimace, grimaced, grimacer, grimacers, grimaces, grimacing, grimalkin, grimalkins, grime, grimed, grimes, grimier, grimiest, grimily, griminess, griminesses, griming, grimly, grimmer, grimmest, grimness, grimnesses, grimy. (additional references)

Words ending with "grim": begrim, megrim, pilgrim. (additional references)

Words containing "grim": agrimonies, agrimony, begrime, begrimed, begrimes, begriming, begrimmed, begrimming, begrims, megrims, pilgrimage, pilgrimaged, pilgrimages, pilgrimaging, pilgrims. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Grim" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Agyrium, egrim, gaim, Gaium, garam, Gdi, Gerin, gerrin, gfi, ghim, Ghrib, ghrin, gimc, gimm, gir, girm, girn, gorem, gorrem, grahm, Grami, gramm, gramo, gream, grem, gren, gri, grib, gric, grie, Griem, grif, grig, griin, Grimaux, grimm, grimn, grimp, grims, grink, grism, griu, griv, griw, griz, groik, groim, grom, gruj, gruk, grun, gtriii, Guigma, irim, wrim. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mig, mir, rig, rim.

-2 letters: mi.

+1 letter: grime, grimy.

+2 letters: arming, begrim, emigre, gambir, gamier, grimed, grimes, grimly, imager, maigre, margin, megrim, mirage, miring, muring, ogrism, regime, riming.

+3 letters: armiger, armings, begrime, begrims, diagram, emigres, epigram, farming, firming, forming, framing, gambier, gambirs, gammier, gemmier, germier, germina, gimpier, gisarme, glimmer, gomeril, gourami, gremial, gremlin, gremmie, grimace, grimier, grimily, griming, grimmer, gripman, gripmen, gummier, harming, imagers, imagery, immerge, impregn, isogram, mangier, margins, marking, marling, marring, marting, megrims, merging, metring, migrant, migrate, mingier, mingler, mirages, misgrew, misgrow, mitring, mooring, morning, muggier, ogreism, ogrisms, origami, perming, pilgrim, primage, priming, ragtime, ramming, ramping, reaming, regimen, regimes, reimage, remiges, rhyming, rimming, roaming, romping, rooming, terming, trigram, warming, worming.