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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
grim
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bleak/gloomy/grim picture (=giving the impression that something is or will be bad)
▪ The report paints a bleak picture of the economy.
a grim discovery (=an unpleasant and sad discovery such as finding a dead body)
▪ Police made the grim discovery while they were searching the house.
a grim/sobering/chilling reminder (=making you feel serious and worried or frightened)
▪ They passed the armed guard, a grim reminder of the ever-present threat of terrorism.
a grim/stern expression (=one that shows you are very strict or angry)
▪ Aunty Kitty looked at us with a stern expression and ordered us indoors.
a terrible/horrible/grim fate
▪ The crew of the ship met a terrible fate.
bleak/grim/dark (=without anything to make you feel hopeful)
▪ The theatre is losing money and its future looks bleak.
dogged/steely/grim determination (=very strong determination)
▪ As a politician she was known for her dogged determination.
face a bleak/grim etc future
▪ Many pensioners face a bleak future.
gloomy/grim/bleak
▪ Many Britons face the grim prospect of having their home repossessed.
grim satisfaction (=when you succeed or are proved right, but do not really feel happy about it)
▪ ‘That’s exactly what I expected,’ he said with grim satisfaction.
paint a grim/rosy/gloomy picture of sb/sth
▪ Dickens painted a grim picture of Victorian life.
the harsh/grim/stark reality (=conditions that are really very bad)
▪ We want to protect our children from the harsh reality of our violent world.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ What is at stake is whether conurbations like Merseyside and Tyne side face a future as grim as the present Belfast.
▪ Holidays, split between parents, were just as grim.
more
▪ The farmhouse was even more grim than usual tonight.
▪ Center officials cite even more grim statistics.
▪ This is made more grim as most pollsters claim voters have made up their minds well before polling day.
▪ A.. The results here sound more grim at first blush than they really are.
▪ And in this case the consequence of such a repetition could hardly be more grim.
rather
▪ He expected good behaviour and his rather grim glance in her direction did more to motivate her into action than any coaxing.
▪ Of rather grim appearance, she wore a tunic of writhing snakes.
▪ The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading.
so
▪ What is there to celebrate and explore when my life is so grim?
▪ Sales are so grim they are offering individual game tickets, although the response has been tepid.
▪ The expression on his face was so grim that it almost frightened her, and she stared at him speechlessly.
■ NOUN
determination
▪ In fact he found Patrick's grim determination not to be charmed rather amusing.
▪ No words, no threats, no waste of energy, just a grim determination to do or die.
expression
▪ But when Mellor left 10 Downing Street, his grim expression showed his Cabinet career was over.
▪ Claudia thought of resisting, but one look at his grim expression told her it would be useless.
▪ Cobalt had resumed his grim expression.
▪ A grim expression furrowed his brow.
▪ In that case, he told me with a grim expression, there was something he had to warn me about.
face
▪ Vologsky increased his pace, momentarily, gaining a few feet so that he could look back at Kirov's grim face.
▪ They always watched him, but never with such grim faces.
▪ He looked over at Renwick's grim face, fell silent.
line
▪ His closely shaven face was tense and his usually sensuous mouth set in a grim line.
▪ Now, his mouth clamped into the grim line she was familiar with.
▪ Her mouth set in a grim line, she went to the kitchen door.
▪ Sarah's mouth set in a grim line.
news
▪ Workers were given the grim news by union officials at a mass meeting.
▪ Many seemed resigned to defeat as two huge television screens flashed the grim news from East Coast precincts.
▪ I brought grim news, and I delivered it with a certain mournful pleasure.
▪ But yesterday's grim news was not unexpected and Marley's shares slipped just 2p to 108p.
picture
▪ They let us know the grim picture you are being given, of our situation here.
▪ Individuals painted a pretty grim picture of the pressures within social security offices.
▪ Repeated commissions and zemstvo investigations drew a grim picture of peasant destitution and growing frustration.
▪ The villagers were still talking about the servant-girl's revelations when dawn broke on a grim picture.
reality
▪ But these steps forward are against the background of some grim realities for children in other areas.
▪ Yet its simplicity dramatizes a grim reality.
▪ Perhaps some of them are good at putting on a face, saving the grim reality for private moments.
▪ Life was teaching him its grim realities - the hard and close way.
▪ My brief visit certainly brought home to me the grim realities that lie behind the many statistics on Third World debt.
▪ It has all been a fantastic myth exploded by grim reality.
▪ However, the pain in her chest confirmed that this was no nightmare, but grim reality.
reaper
▪ Some tragedy appears to have befallen the family and it appears likely that the grim reaper called for both parents around 1846.
▪ The long arm of the corporation's grim reaper is not deterred by such agoraphobic precautions.
satisfaction
▪ Their steep decline has given grim satisfaction to their legions of detractors.
▪ He sensed their grim satisfaction, something meritorious in the air, some old grievance righted at last.
▪ George locked the letter away, smiling with grim satisfaction.
▪ Miguel stood there smoking and grunting and nodding to himself with the grim satisfaction that comes when your suspicions are proved correct.
▪ Conservatives on the faculty enjoyed the grim satisfaction of seeing their predictions of catastrophe realized in full.
smile
▪ Katherine's lips moved in a grim smile as she recalled some of the details - it had been quite a scandal.
▪ He did it with the grim smile of the entrepreneur.
▪ Her grim smile was triumphant when she turned back to the open freight car.
▪ He pocketed it with a grim smile, evidently appreciating the joke.
▪ There was a grim smile on Duvall's face as he advanced.
▪ That grim smile smuggled beneath his moustache; a temperance flag at his elbow.
▪ With a small grim smile of satisfaction, he went back to the utility room and looked at the power switches.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
grim-faced/serious-faced etc
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A grim-faced diplomat read out the declaration of war.
▪ a grim-faced policeman
▪ a grim economic situation
▪ Rescue workers are continuing the grim task of searching for bodies.
▪ She looked grim and upset, standing silently in the corner.
▪ the grim details of the war
▪ The next few weeks brought more grim news, as the economic crisis began to deepen.
▪ The situation is grim for the innocent people, caught up in this conflict.
▪ Things look pretty grim for farmers at the moment.
▪ Two thousand car workers face the grim prospect of redundancy.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ As the supply of carrots dwindled, people told fewer stories, they grew grimmer, we laughed less at our conquerors.
▪ During that drive there was much discussion about the future, which looked pretty grim.
▪ Even in the grimmest period, we both respond to the inner commandments that find some value here.
▪ However, I suspect that Mains rather got some enjoyment out of appearing as some grim nemesis of the south.
▪ The Bears had better start grabbing on to something, anything, as the outlook on the season suddenly turned very grim.
▪ The next grim prospect is carnage following the PE2 results.
▪ The spy-fly zipped along in her wake, down narrower, abandoned, grim alleys.
▪ Their faces soot black, raccoon eyes grim, alert.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grim

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.

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
grim

Old English grimm "fierce, cruel, savage, dire, painful," from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz (cognates: Old Saxon, Old Frisian, Old High German, German grimm, Old Norse grimmr, Swedish grym "fierce, furious"), from PIE *ghrem- "angry," perhaps imitative of the sound of rumbling thunder (compare Greek khremizein "to neigh," Old Church Slavonic vuzgrimeti "to thunder," Russian gremet' "thunder").\n

\nA weaker word now than once it was; sense of "dreary, gloomy" first recorded late 12c. It also had a verb form in Old English, grimman (class III strong verb; past tense gramm, p.p. grummen). Old English also had a noun, grima "goblin, specter," perhaps also a proper name or attribute-name of a god, hence its appearance as an element in place names.\n

\nGrim reaper as a figurative way to say "death" is attested by 1847 (the association of grim and death goes back at least to 17c.). A Middle English expression for "have recourse to harsh measures" was to wend the grim tooth (early 13c.).

grim

"spectre, bogey, haunting spirit," 1620s, from grim (adj.).

Wiktionary
grim

a. 1 dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding 2 rigid and unrelenting 3 ghastly or sinister 4 (context UK slang English) disgusting; gross

WordNet
grim

  1. adj. 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]

  7. [also: grimmest, grimmer]

Wikipedia
GRIM

GRIM (Groupe de recherche et d'improvisation musicales, roughtly translated Group of Research and Musical Innovation), based in Marseille, France, is a non-profit institute for improvised music and experimental music. GRIM bases its activities at Montévidéo, a site of contemporary creation in Marseille.

GRIM is a voluntary association (association loi de 1901) funded by the city of Marseille and focused on organising musical events. The organisation hosts concerts, workshops, lectures, artist in residence projects, recording sessions and has a multimedia public library with books and music related to avant garde music, experimental music, improvised music, sound art and contemporary music. GRIM was founded in 1978 by guitarist and composer Jean-Marc Montera. It also organises or co-organises the festivals Nuit d'Hiver, and Sonic Protest. GRIM has a recording studio, a library, and two concert halls, a small one and a big one.

Grim (surname)

Grim is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Bob Grim (baseball), Major League Baseball player
  • Bob Grim (American football), American football player
  • Bobby Grim, American racecar driver
  • Emanuel Grim (1883–1950), Polish priest and writer
  • Fred Grim (born 1965), Dutch retired football goalkeeper
  • John Grim (1867–1961), Major League Baseball player
Grim (musical)

Grim, also known as Grim: A New Musical or Grim - The Love Story To Die For, was a musical that premiered at the 899-seat Rose Theatre, Kingston on 20 July, 2014. It has music by Joseph Alexander and lyrics/book written by Fiona O'Malley, of 'The Untold Theatre Company'.

Set in a high-school, the musical is about when the two greatest forces in the world, love (Cupid) and death (Grim), meet. The two fall in love, but if Grim is with him, it will lead to his demise.

Grim (band)

Grim is a Montenegrin gothic metal band. It was formed in 1999 in Bar, Montenegro. Their first single "Rijeka Moga Sna" (River of My Dreams) was released in 2003. The band also took part in the Serbo-Montenegrin Eurovision Song Contest National Final, Evropesma, in 2006 with "Uspavanka" (Lullaby), and the Montenegrin national finals in 2007 and 2008. The band's lead vocal, Nebojša Đukanović, took part in Montevizija 2005, but did not make it to the final ( Evropesma). The band dissolved in 2008, just after their first album has been released, but the band was reestablished as rock duo Grimm, the members being Đukanović and Ivana Janković.

Grim (Kristiansand)

Grim is a borough in Kristiansand, Norway. The borough has a population of 16,000 people and is the second least populated borough in Kristiansand. Grim is located north for Vågsbygd, north-west for Kvadraturen and west for Lund. It also borders to Songdalen and Vennesla Municipality.

Grim is divided into 5 districts, with Grim itself south-east where it's a little centrum for the borough, the district has a large number off large white old houses. South-west in Grim is the district Hellemyr and mid-south is Tinnheia. North for these three urban environment districts is Strai and north for that is Mosby which is both characterized by agrarian environment.

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Usage examples of "grim".

Sour clumps of travelers drifted amongst the chuck wagons and the anachronistically styled riding enclosures, looking grim.

Possibly we shall see them all there amid the savage romance of the grim jungle and the great plains where Tarzan of the Apes loves best to be.

Deep within him smouldered the savage fires of his Caledonian ancestry that made him one with the grim crusaders of the past and with the naked descendants of the Athapascans preparing for battle.

But Benedick insists on being grim, and stalks off after insulting Claudio unmistakably and formally leaving the service of Don Pedro.

I glanced over at Betsey and saw a grim look on her face as she stared out the windshield.

Steve knew that the time would soon come when he would lose Bids and faced it with grim composure.

Not for a moment did Hugh think that Jer might tell Bids, or worse, her grim father, that his brother was promised to a girl in Trafalgar.

In fact, the look he gave the old bogwood clock on the mantel was decidedly grim.

Maddie and Beau exchanged amused glances as they watched the cultured Bostonian matron attending her task with grim determination.

There I saw the family tablets, and I shuddered to think of small boys being led in here to pray, with grim lectures about the curse the family carried.

The Browns, by contrast, seemed oddly elated, though in a grim sort of way.

There were fewer elderly people dressed for vacationing, and more dark-suited businesspeople with grim, worried expressions on their faces and cellular telephones pressed to their ears.

Cilghal looked away with her big Calamarian eyes, but Han answered with grim certainty.

There marched therein grim knights of the Teutonic and other orders, fur-clad Poles and Rus-Goths, squadrons of slant-eyed Kalmyks and Lithuanians, Prussians, Bohemians, Saxons, Bavarians, Brandenburgers, Tyrolers, Styrians, Carinthians, Savoyards, Switzers, men of Franche-Comte, Marburg, Munster, Cassel, Frankfort, Koln, Luxemburg, Stuttgart, Regensburg, Hamburg, and Bremen.

He spoke quietly, staring ahead of him, and Claribel glancing at him, thought how grim his profile looked.