grimness

Other forms of grimness

plural

grimnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about grimness

What does grimness mean?

grimness means "the quality of being ghastly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in grimness?

grimness has 2 syllables: grim-ness. The stress falls on "grim". In IPA it is /ˈɡɹɪmnəs/.

What is another word for grimness?

Close synonyms include ghastliness, gruesomeness, luridness, asperity, hardship. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is grimness a common word?

grimness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.