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grimful

grimful adjective: characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.

Adjective

grimful (comparative more grimful, superlative most grimful)

  1. Characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.
    • And fist, sledge-hammer like; nor grimful face […]1860, Charles Campbell, History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia, page 545
    • The greatest favour grimful Death can show Is with swift dart to expedite the blow.1870, Thomas Roscoe, The Works of Jonathan Swift

Forms of grimful

comparativemore grimful
superlativemost grimful

Origin of grimful

From Middle English grimful, grymfull, from Old English grimfull (“fierce, terrible”), equivalent to grim (noun) + -ful.

Questions about grimful

What does grimful mean?
Grimful means characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible.
What part of speech is grimful?
Grimful is an adjective.

Words near grimful in the dictionary

  1. grimester
  2. grimesters
  3. Grimesthorpe
  4. Grimethorpe
  5. grimey
  6. grimful
  7. grimgribber
  8. grimgribbers
  9. grimicidin
  10. grimier
  11. grimiest

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