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Grim vs Dim - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between grim and dim

is that grim is dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding while dim is not bright or colorful.

As a proper noun Grim

is {{surname|A=An|English}}, probably derived from Old English grimm or Old Norse grimr or grimmr.

As an adverb dim is

dimly, indistinctly.

As a noun dim is

dimness.

As a verb dim is

to make something less bright.

grim

English

Adjective

(grimmer)
  • dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
    • Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
  • rigid and unrelenting
    • His grim determination enabled him to win.
  • ghastly or sinister
    • A grim castle overshadowed the village.
  • * 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “ The Hunger Games''”, in ''AV Club :
    • In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
  • (UK, slang) disgusting; gross
    • Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !

    dim

    Translingual

    Symbol

    (head)
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