资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Grim \Grim\, a. [Compar. {Grimmer} (-mer); superl. {Grimmest}.]
   [AS. grim; akin to G. grimm, equiv. to G. & D. grimmig, Dan.
   grim, grum, Sw. grym, Icel. grimmr, G. gram grief, as adj.,
   hostile; cf. Gr. ?, a crushing sound, ? to neigh.]
   Of forbidding or fear-inspiring aspect; fierce; stern; surly;
   cruel; frightful; horrible.

         Whose grim aspect sets every joint a-shaking. --Shak.

         The ridges of grim war.                  --Milton.

   Syn: Syn.-- Fierce; ferocious; furious; horrid; horrible;
        frightful; ghastly; grisly; hideous; stern; sullen;
        sour.

资料来源 : WordNet®

grimmest
     See {grim}

grim
     adj 1: not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty; "grim
            determination"; "grim necessity"; "Russia's final
            hour, it seemed, approached with inexorable
            certainty"; "relentless persecution"; "the stern
            demands of parenthood" [syn: {inexorable}, {relentless},
             {stern}, {unappeasable}, {unforgiving}, {unrelenting}]
     2: shockingly repellent; inspiring horror; "ghastly wounds";
        "the grim aftermath of the bombing"; "the grim task of
        burying the victims"; "a grisly murder"; "gruesome
        evidence of human sacrifice"; "macabre tales of war and
        plague in the Middle ages"; "macabre tortures conceived by
        madmen" [syn: {ghastly}, {grisly}, {gruesome}, {macabre}]
     3: harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke";
        "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ...
        to savage mordant wit" [syn: {black}, {mordant}]
     4: causing dejection; "a blue day"; "the dark days of the war";
        "a week of rainy depressing weather"; "a disconsolate
        winter landscape"; "the first dismal dispiriting days of
        November"; "a dark gloomy day"; "grim rainy weather" [syn:
         {blue}, {dark}, {depressing}, {disconsolate}, {dismal}, {dispiriting},
         {gloomy}]
     5: harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance; "a
        dour, self-sacrificing life"; "a forbidding scowl"; "a
        grim man loving duty more than humanity"; "undoubtedly the
        grimmest part of him was his iron claw"- J.M.Barrie [syn:
        {dour}, {forbidding}]
     6: characterized by hopelessness; filled with gloom; "gloomy at
        the thought of what he had to face"; "gloomy predictions";
        "a gloomy silence"; "took a grim view of the economy";
        "the darkening mood" [syn: {gloomy}, {darkening}]
     [also: {grimmest}, {grimmer}]