Found 2 items, similar to grimmest.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: grimmest
grimmest
See
grim
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]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Grimmest
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.
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Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.
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The ridges of grim war. --Milton.
Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
sour.
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