Definitions for Grim

Grim grim

Spelling: [grim]
IPA: /grɪm/

Grim is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in Grim (gimr).

Definitions for Grim

adjective

  1. stern and admitting of no appeasement or compromise:
  2. of a sinister or ghastly character; repellent:
  3. having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air:
  4. fierce, savage, or cruel:

Origin of Grim

before 900; Middle English, Old English; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German grimm, Old Norse grimmr

Examples for Grim

It was composed of the grim psychological laws that govern the abnormal.

Andrew peered into the grim face of the older man; there was not a flicker of a smile in it.

Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.

The medical record, from an Ebola case, made for grim reading, but Dr. Ian Crozier could not put it down.

In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged.

And this is where the plague outbreak does resemble Ebola—as a grim reminder of the consequences of our global interconnectedness.

The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.

His was a commanding physique, hard as the grim plains from which he wrested his living.

This dart which I hold in my hand was once grim Death's own weapon.

grim, dour, silent, it waited for the beginning of hostilities.

Word Value for Grim
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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