[ɡrɪm], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- very serious or gloomy
(e.g: his grim expression)

- (especially of a place) unattractive or forbidding
(e.g: rows of grim, dark housing developments)


Phrases:
- like grim death

Origin:
Old English grim, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch grim and German grimm