grimsome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by grimness; somber
Example Sentences
- "Am I some deep-sea snake-monster that thou, thou grimsome watcher, watch me even when I swallow my spittle?"
- "“[...] Is there something on your mind that you need you want to talk about cause you scaring me with that wide eyed grimsome look”?"
- "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?"
- "Numb and grimsome. It is a disgrace."
- "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."
Etymology
From grim + -some.
Word Breakdown
Inflected Forms
more grimsome (comparative)
most grimsome (superlative)