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      grim
      noun
      An English surname
      (MLE, slang, probably a fashionable word around 2006, now dated) A promiscuous woman.
      (obsolete) Anger, wrath.
      (obsolete) A specter, ghost, haunting spirit.
      verb
      (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
      adjective
      Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
      Ghastly or sinister.
      Rigid and unrelenting.
      Disgusting; gross.
      (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
      Synonyms for grim
      gloomyadjdismaladjdouradjdrearyadjgrislyadjgruesomeadjghastlyadjmacabreadjdrearadjdisconsolateadjbleakadjforbiddingnsombrousadjsomberadjglumadjcheerlessadjunforgivingadjominousadjmoroseadjunrelentingadjdarkadjdepressedadjgruminexorableadjdirefuladjsinisteradj
      Words related to grim
      grimnessndrabadjcheerlesslyadvgrimlyadvdowncastadjdingyadjdepressingadjmordantnbleaklyadvlugubriousadjdispiritedadjdepressinglyadvgrislinessndisconsolationn

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