• Russian: мрачный

• Russian: непреклонный

• Finnish: synkkä (1), tuima (2), kauhea (3)
• Maori: muha

Danish

Adjective

grim

1. ugly

Old English

Etymology

From Germanic *grimmaz, from Indo-European *ghrem- ‘to thunder’. Cognate with Old Saxon grim, Old High German grim (German grimm), Old Norse grimmr (Danish grim), Swedish grym; and with Greek χρεμίζω, Old Church Slavonic грьмѣти (Russian греметь), Latvian gremt.

Pronunciation

/grɪm/

Adjective

grim

1. fierce, severe, terrible

Grim may refer to:

• Grim (Billy & Mandy), a fictional character from the television series The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy
• Grim, a Montenegrin rock group.
• Erik Brødreskift (also known as Grim), a Norwegian musician
• The Church Grim, a spectral black dog, which inspired
  • The Grim, an omen of death in the form of a black dog in the fictional Harry Potter universe
• Cape Grim, a cape in Tasmania, Australia
• Grim Natwick (1890–1990), an American animator and film director
• Grim Township, Michigan
• Grim the Collier of Croydon, seventeenth-century play of uncertain authorship, first published in 1662
• Grim Tuesday, a novel by Garth Nix, and the second of the Keys to the Kingdom series
• Grim, literary term originated from Old English

See also

• Grim Reaper, a personification of death
• Grim Tales
• Grimm

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