| grim | (adj) not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty, Syn. stern, relentless, unrelenting, unappeasable, inexorable, unforgiving, Example: grim determination; grim necessity; Russia's final hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable certainty; relentless persecution; the stern demands of parenthood | | grimace | (n) a contorted facial expression, Syn. face, Example: she made a grimace at the prospect | | grimace | (v) contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state, Syn. make a face, pull a face, Example: He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do | | grimes' golden | (n) yellow apple that ripens in late autumn; eaten raw | | griminess | (n) the state of being grimy, Syn. grubbiness | | grimly | (adv) in a grim implacable manner, Example: he was grimly satisfied | | grimm | (n) the younger of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories (1786-1859), Syn. Wilhelm Grimm, Wilhelm Karl Grimm | | grimm | (n) the older of the two Grimm brothers remembered best for their fairy stories; also author of Grimm's law describing consonant changes in Germanic languages (1785-1863), Syn. Jakob Grimm, Jakob Ludwig Karl Grimm | | grimm's law | (n) a sound law relating German consonants and consonants in other Indo-European languages | | grimoire | (n) a manual of black magic (for invoking spirits and demons) |
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| Grim | a. [ Compar. Grimmer superl. Grimmest ] [ 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. &unr_;, a crushing sound, &unr_; to neigh. ] Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. [ 1913 Webster ] Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] The ridges of grim war. Milton. Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible; frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen; sour. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grimace | v. i. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grimace | n. [ F., prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. grīma mask, specter, Icel. grīma mask, hood, perh. akin to E. grin. ] A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. [ 1913 Webster ] Moving his face into such a hideous grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ “Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's ‘Marriage a-la-Mode, ’ as innovations in our language, are now in common use: chagrin, double-entendre, éclaircissement, embarras, équivoque, foible, grimace, naïvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use.” I. Disraeli. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grimaced | a. Distorted; crabbed. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grimalkin | n. [ For graymalkin; gray + malkin. ] 1. An old cat, especially a she-cat. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A bad-tempered old woman. [ PJC ] | | Grime | v. t. To sully or soil deeply; to dirt. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grime | n. [ Cf. Dan. grim, griim, lampblack, soot, grime, Icel. grīma mask, sort of hood, OD. grijmsel, grimsel, soot, smut, and E. grimace. ] Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grimily | adv. In a grimy manner. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Griminess | n. The state of being grimy. [ 1913 Webster ] | | Grimly | a. Grim; hideous; stern. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] In glided Margaret's grimly ghost,
And stood at William's feet. D. Mallet. [ 1913 Webster ] |
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