Word Meanings - GRIM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. Shak The ridges of grim war. Milton. Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible; frightful; ghastly;

Additional info about word: GRIM

Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly; cruel; frightful; horrible. Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. Shak The ridges of grim war. Milton. Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible; frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen; sour. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of GRIM)

• Gaunt
• Grim
• savage
• lean
• lank
• hungry
• thin
• spare
• attenuated
• emaciated
• Ghastly
• Deathlike
• grim
• cadaverous
• spectral
• pallid
• hideous
• shocking
• Hideous
• Frightful
• unshapely
• monstrous
• horrid
• horrible
• ugly
• grisly
• ghastly

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of GRIM)

• Spend
• squander
• waste
• lavish
• scatter
• expend
• pour
• indulge
• vent

Related words: (words related to GRIM)

• ATTENUATION
  1. The act or process of making slender, or the state of being slender; emaciation. 2. The act of attenuating; the act of making thin or less dense, or of rarefying, as fluids or gases. 3. The process of weakening in intensity; diminution
• GRISLY
  Frightful; horrible; dreadful; harsh; as, grisly locks; a grisly specter. "Grisly to behold." Chaucer. A man of grisly and stern gravity. Robynson . Grisly bear. See under Grizzly. (more info) gro shudder; cf. OD. grijselick horrible,
• ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
  1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon.
• DEATHLIKE
  1. Resembling death. A deathlike slumber, and a dead repose. Pope. 2. Deadly. "Deathlike dragons." Shak.
• WASTEL
  A kind of white and fine bread or cake; -- called also wastel bread, and wastel cake. Roasted flesh or milk and wasted bread. Chaucer. The simnel bread and wastel cakes, which were only used at the tables of the highest nobility. Sir W. Scott.
• LAVISHNESS
  The quality or state of being lavish.
• WASTETHRIFT
  A spendthrift.
• HUNGRY
  1. Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire. 2. Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious. The cruel, hungry foam. C. Kingsley. Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
• SPENDTHRIFT
  One who spends money profusely or improvidently; a prodigal; one who lavishes or wastes his estate. Also used figuratively. A woman who was a generous spendthrift of life. Mrs. R. H. Davis.
• LAVISHER
  One who lavishes.
• FRIGHTFUL
  1. Full of fright; affrighted; frightened. See how the frightful herds run from the wood. W. Browne. 2. Full of that which causes fright; exciting alarm; impressing terror; shocking; as, a frightful chasm, or tempest; a frightful appearance. Syn.
• SPENDER
  One who spends; esp., one who spends lavishly; a prodigal; a spendthrift.
• GHASTLY
  gastlich, gastli, fearful, causing fear, fr. gasten to terrify, AS. 1. Like a ghost in appearance; deathlike; pale; pallid; dismal. Each turned his face with a ghastly pang. Coleridge. His face was so ghastly that it could scarcely be recognized.
• WASTEBOARD
  See 3
• SQUANDER
  scatter, to squander, Prov. E. swatter, Dan. sqvatte, Sw. sqvätta to squirt, sqvättra to squander, Icel. skvetta to squirt out, to throw 1. To scatter; to disperse. Our squandered troops he rallies. Dryden. 2. To spend lavishly or profusely;
• SHOCKDOG
  See 1
• CADAVEROUS
  1. Having the appearance or color of a dead human body; pale; ghastly; as, a cadaverous look. 2. Of or pertaining to, or having the qualities of, a dead body. "The scent cadaverous." -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ly, adv. -- Ca*dav"er*ous*ness, n.
• PALLIDNESS
  The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.
• HORRIDLY
  In a horrid manner. Shak.
• HORRIDNESS
  The quality of being horrid.
• ALKALI WASTE
  Waste material from the manufacture of alkali; specif., soda waste.
• BESCATTER
  1. To scatter over. 2. To cover sparsely by scattering ; to strew. "With flowers bescattered." Spenser.
• OVERWASTED
  Wasted or worn out; Drayton.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• TRANSPARENT
  transparere to be transparent; L. trans across, through + parere to 1. Having the property of transmitting rays of light, so that bodies can be distinctly seen through; pervious to light; diaphanous; pellucid; as, transparent glass; a transparent
• ORCHIDEOUS
  See ORCHIDACEOUS
• DESPEND
  To spend; to squander. See Dispend. Some noble men in Spain can despend Howell.