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Grimm vs Grim - What's the difference?

grimm | grim |

As proper nouns the difference between grimm and grim

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

As an adjective grim is

dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding.

grimm

English

Proper noun

(en proper noun)

    • 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 !