Grim vs Gim - What's the difference?
grim | gim |
dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
rigid and unrelenting
ghastly or sinister
* 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “
(UK, slang) disgusting; gross
As a proper noun grim
is , probably derived from old english grimm' or old norse '''grimr''' or ' grimmr .As an adjective gim is
(dialect|dated) neat; spruce.grim
English
Adjective
(grimmer)- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- His grim determination enabled him to win.
- A grim castle overshadowed the village.
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.
- Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge? —Mate, that is grim !
