Definitions
shockingly repellent; inspiring horror
Word origin
From Middle English grim, from Old English grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”).
Used in a sentence
“Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.”
“Developments were markedly different in the Soviet zone, but ultimately ended in perhaps an even grimmer dead end: that of SED leader Walter Ulbricht’s thoroughly Stalinized German Democratic Republic (GDR).”
“It's been a grim start to the year.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Very serious or bleak”4 letters
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