Glum

/ɡlʌm/ · adjective

Meaning

Despondent; moody; sullen..

Definitions by Sense

1. Despondent; moody; sullen.
2. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
3. (obsolete) sullenness

Example Sentences

I[…]frighten people by my glum face.

[…] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.

A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.

U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who had sought to save Chevron during hours of argument in January, looks slightly glum in her seat at the counsel tables.

upon me he gan to loure and glum, Enforcing him so for to ryse withall, But that I shortly unto hem did cum, With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum

That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum

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Word Forms

• glummer
• glummest
• glums
• glumming
• glummed

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