Grimmer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Grim \Grim\ (gr[i^]m), a. [Compar. {Grimmer} (-m[~e]r); superl.
     {Grimmest} (-m[e^]st).] [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. ?, a crushing sound,
     ? 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: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
          frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
          sour.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grimmer
       See {grim}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  grim
       adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim
              determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
              hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable
              certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern
              demands of parenthood" [syn: {inexorable}, {relentless},
               {stern}, {unappeasable}, {unforgiving}, {unrelenting}]
       2: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds";
          "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of
          burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome
          evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and
          plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by
          madmen" [syn: {ghastly}, {grisly}, {gruesome}, {macabre}]
       3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
          "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...
          to savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {mordant}]
       4: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
          "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate
          winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of
          November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn:
           {blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {dispiriting},
           {gloomy}]
       5: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a
          dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a
          grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the
          grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn:
          {dour}, {forbidding}]
       6: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at
          the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions";
          "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy";
          "the darkening mood" [syn: {gloomy}, {darkening}]
       [also: {grimmest}, {grimmer}]