GRIM, GRIMLY
ADJECTIVES
► ALAGRUGOUS ► ALLAGRUGOUS discontented-looking, ill-natured, morose, disagreeable; grim, ghastly → 1742 Sc.
► ATRY ► ATTERY of persons: irritable, fretful, grim, ill-tempered → 1742 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BOOT-FACED grim-faced, sad-faced; with an expressionless face → 1942 colloq.
► GASH grim, dismal, sour-looking, ghastly → 1826 Sc.
► GAUNT of inanimate things: grim or desolate of aspect → 1840
► GREECY ► GRISY ► GRIZY horrible; grim; grisly → 1382 obs.
► GRISLY causing horror, terror, or extreme fear; horrible or terrible to behold or to bear; causing unpleasant feelings; of forbidding appearance; grim ghastly → 1150 arch.
► GROUTY of persons: grim-looking, sullen, grumpy → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► GRUGOUS grim, grizzly → 1785 Sc. obs.
► GRUM grim, surly, sullen, morose, glum → 1771 Amer. dial.
► MALAGRUGROUS ► MALEGRUGROUS ► MALLAGRUGOUS grim, ghastly; discontented-looking → 1742 Sc.
► MALEGROBOLOUS grim, forbidding; gloomy, dismal, melancholy → 1819 Sc. obs.
ADVERBS
► MALAGRUGROUSLY grimly, gloomily → 1818 Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► GRIMSIR an austere, stern, morose, or overbearing person; a grim old man; a haughty or arrogant person in office → c1450 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
PHRASES
► HAVE A FACE LIKE A COASTGUARD STATION to look stony and grim → c1940 sl.
► THAT’S SHOW BUSINESS such is the unpredictable or grim nature of things → 1947 US sl.
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