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grimsome en · ADJ

Etymology

From grim + -some.

Meanings

1. Characterised or marked by grimness; somber
   • The poor ragged old soul continued to gasp, / Barely puffing out his last grimsome yasp, “You, young plop, are one part Oxygen, / Which fish borrow or steal, / It's here again, gone again. Do you miss it? How do you feel? 2013, Kevin Alan Richards, Plop the Raindrop:
   • “[...] Is there something on your mind that you need you want to talk about cause you scaring me with that wide eyed grimsome look”? 2011, ghetto english rock / Attaway, Bitches Brew:
   • Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle? 2010, Tyler Blanski, Clay Eyes:
   • Numb and grimsome. It is a disgrace. 2013, Jonathan Strahan, Fearsome Journeys:
   • The appellation, melancholia, / Rings grimsome cannotations [sic] to the mind / Of fearful lapses caused by constant thought / Of hardships, accusations and forebodings, / Preying to disorient in space / The will to reason and for what one wrought. 2014, Rames J. Bucci, Destiny:

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