Definition of Grim

A giant black dog one sees as a death omen; when someone sees a Grim, it is believed that he/she will soon die.

Book on death omens in Flourish and Blotts with a picture of a Grim on the cover.

(Compar.)
Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible.
  

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grim
\grim\ (?), a. [compar. grimmer (-mer); superl. grimmest (&?;).] [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. whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. the ridges of grim war.

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Gygus = a. frowning; grim, glum

Hylldrem = n. grim aspect

Hylldremwr = n. grim looker

a story

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Adjective
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"
(synonym) inexorable, relentless, stern, unappeasable, unforgiving, unrelenting
(similar) implacable
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"
(synonym) ghastly, grisly, gruesome, macabre
(similar) alarming
3. harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
(synonym) black, mordant
(similar) sarcastic
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"
(synonym) blue, dark, depressing, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, gloomy
(similar) cheerless, uncheerful
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
(synonym) dour, forbidding
(similar) unpleasant
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"
(synonym) gloomy, darkening
(similar) hopeless

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