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GRIMNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Something hard to endure
Example:
the asperity of northern winters
Synonyms:
asperity; grimness; hardship; rigor; rigorousness; rigour; rigourousness; severeness; severity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("grimness" is a kind of...):
difficultness; difficulty (the quality of being difficult)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grimness"):
sternness (the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding)
Derivation:
grim (not to be placated or appeased or moved by entreaty)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of being ghastly
Synonyms:
ghastliness; grimness; gruesomeness; luridness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("grimness" is a kind of...):
frightfulness (the quality of being frightful)
Derivation:
grim (shockingly repellent; inspiring horror)
grim (harshly uninviting or formidable in manner or appearance)
grim (harshly ironic or sinister)
