grimsome

English

Etymology

From grim +‎ -some.

Adjective

grimsome (comparative more grimsome, superlative most grimsome)

  1. Characterised or marked by grimness; somber
    • 2010, Tyler Blanski, Clay Eyes:
      Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?
    • 2011, ghetto english rock / Attaway, Bitches Brew:
      “[...] Is there something on your mind that you need you want to talk about cause you scaring me with that wide eyed grimsome look”?
    • 2013, Kevin Alan Richards, Plop the Raindrop:
      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, Jonathan Strahan, Fearsome Journeys:
      Numb and grimsome. It is a disgrace.
    • 2014, Rames J. Bucci, Destiny:
      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.
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