grimmest

Adjective

grim (comparative grimmer, superlative grimmest)

1. Dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.
   • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.

   Synonyms:

   bleak, harsh, cheerless, comfortless, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate

2. Rigid and unrelenting.
   • His grim determination enabled him to win.

   Synonyms:

   overwhelming, unbending, adamantine, concrete, firm, granitic, hard, inflexible, lithic, resistant

3. Ghastly or sinister.
   • A grim castle overshadowed the village.

   Synonyms:

   forboding, malevolent, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful

4. Disgusting; gross.
   • – Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
     – Mate, that is grim!

   Synonyms:

   foul, loathsome, abhorrant, abhorrent, bad, sickly, mean, infernal, bum, horrid

5. (obsolete) Fierce, cruel, furious.
   • The LORDE shall be grymme vpon them, and destroye all the goddes in the londe. And all the Iles of the Heithen shal worshipe him, euery man in his place.1535 October 14 (Gregorian calendar), Myles Coverdale, transl., Biblia: The Byble, […] (Coverdale Bible), [Cologne or Marburg]: [Eucharius Cervicornus and Johannes Soter?], →OCLC, Zachary [Zechariah]...

   Synonyms:

   ferocious, raging, savage, violent, agitated, angry, annoyed, apoplectic, bad-tempered, berserk

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