Etymology

grimful

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Today it means: Characterised by grimness; harsh, wrathful, terrible. Full definition →

Middle English grimful ← Old English grimfull
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromgrimfull“fierce, terrible”
  2. Middle English · inherited fromgrimful
  3. English todaygrimful

From Middle English grimful, grymfull, from Old English grimfull (“fierce, terrible”), equivalent to grim (noun) + -ful.

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