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horrific
English
Alternative forms
- horrifick (obsolete)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin horrificus, from horre? (“to be afraid”) + -fic? (“to make”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /h????f?k/, /h????f?k/, /h????f?k/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h????f?k/, /h????f?k/
- (General New Zealand) IPA(key): /h????f?k/, /h????f?k/
- Rhymes: -?f?k
Adjective
horrific (comparative more horrific, superlative most horrific)
- Horrifying, causing horror; horrible.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:frightening
Usage notes
- Like many terms that start with a non-silent h but have emphasis on their second syllable, some people precede horrific with an, others with a.
Related terms
- horrible
- horrifical
- horrification
- horrify
- horror
- horrendous
Translations
horrific From the web:
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grim
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
From Middle English grim, from Old English grim, grimm, from Proto-West Germanic *grimm, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz, from Proto-Indo-European *g?rem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Noun sense derives from adjective, from 1620s.
Adjective
grim (comparative grimmer, superlative grimmest)
- dismal and gloomy, cold and forbidding
- Life was grim in many northern industrial towns.
- rigid and unrelenting
- His grim determination enabled him to win.
- ghastly or sinister
- A grim castle overshadowed the village.
- 2012 March 22, Scott Tobias, “The Hunger Games”, in AV Club:
- In movie terms, it suggests Paul Verhoeven in Robocop/Starship Troopers mode, an R-rated bloodbath where the grim spectacle of children murdering each other on television is bread-and-circuses for the age of reality TV, enforced by a totalitarian regime to keep the masses at bay.
- disgusting; gross
- - Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
- Mate, that is grim!
- - Wanna see the dead rat I found in my fridge?
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
grim (plural grims)
- (obsolete) specter, ghost, haunting spirit
Verb
grim (third-person singular simple present grims, present participle grimming, simple past and past participle grimmed)
- (transitive, rare) To make grim; to give a stern or forbidding aspect to.
Etymology 2
From Middle English grim, grym, greme, from Old English *grimu, *grimmu, from Proto-Germanic *grimm?? (“anger, wrath”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?rem- (“to resound, thunder, grumble, roar”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grimme, Middle High German grimme f (“anger”), modern German Grimm m.
Noun
grim (uncountable)
- (archaic) Anger, wrath.
Derived terms
- grimful
- grimless
Danish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [????m?]
Etymology
From Old Norse grimmr, from Proto-Germanic *grimmaz.
Adjective
grim
- ugly, unsightly
- nasty
Inflection
Kalasha
Verb
grim
- taking
Old English
Alternative forms
- grimm
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *grimm.
Cognate with Old Saxon grim, Old High German grim (German grimm, grimmig), Old Norse grimmr (Danish grim, Swedish grym); and with Greek ??????? (chremízo), Old Church Slavonic ??????? (gr?m?ti) (Russian ???????? (gremét?)), Latvian gremt.
Perhaps related in Old Norse to veiled or hooded, Grim is also an alternate name for Odin, who often went around disguised; compare the hooded appearance of The Grim Reaper.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?rim/
Adjective
grim
- fierce, severe, terrible, savage, cruel, angry
Declension
Descendants
- Middle English: grim
- Scots: grim
- English: grim
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