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Grummest vs Grimmest - What's the difference?

grummest | grimmest |

As adjectives the difference between grummest and grimmest

is that grummest is (grum) while grimmest is (grim).

grummest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (grum)

    • Anagrams

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    grum

    English

    Adjective

    (grummer)
  • Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 58:
    • She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.
  • Low, deep in the throat; guttural
    • a grum voice

    Synonyms

    * glum * grim * sour

    Derived terms

    * grumly * grumness ----

    grimmest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (grim)

    • 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 !