GRIM


Meaning of GRIM in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ grɪm ]

( grimmer, grimmest)

1.

A situation or piece of information that is grim is unpleasant, depressing, and difficult to accept.

They painted a grim picture of growing crime...

There was further grim economic news yesterday...

The mood could not have been grimmer.

ADJ

• grim‧ness

...an unrelenting grimness of tone.

N-UNCOUNT

2.

A place that is grim is unattractive and depressing in appearance.

...the tower blocks on the city’s grim edges.

ADJ

3.

If a person or their behaviour is grim , they are very serious, usually because they are worried about something. ( WRITTEN )

She was a grim woman with a turned-down mouth...

Her expression was grim and unpleasant.

ADJ

4.

If you say that something is grim , you think that it is very bad, ugly, or depressing. ( INFORMAL )

Things were pretty grim for a time.

ADJ

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