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Meaning of GRIMNESS

Pronunciation:  gr'imnus

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
  2. [n]  the quality of being ghastly
 
 Synonyms: asperity, ghastliness, gruesomeness, hardship, luridness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, severity
 
 See Also: difficultness, difficulty, frightfulness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Grim"ness\, n. [AS. grimnes.]
Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.
 

 

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