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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
grim/ɡrɪm/
adjective (grimmer, grimmest)
  • 1 very serious or gloomy.

    ■ (of humour) black or ironic.

  • 2 unappealing, unattractive, or depressing.
– phrases
like (or for) grim death Brit. with great determination.
– derivatives
grimly adverb,
grimness noun.
– origin OE, of Gmc origin.



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