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Glum

Glum Meaning & Definition
Glum Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Glum?

[adj] reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
[adj] showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Glum: dark | dejected | dour | gloomy | glowering | ill-natured | long-faced | moody | morose | saturnine | sour | sullen

Related Terms | Find terms related to Glum: beetle-browed | black | black-browed | brooding | broody | chapfallen | close-lipped | crabbed | crestfallen | dark | dejected | depressed | dismal | dispirited | doleful | dour | down | dumpish | frowning | gloomy | glowering | grim | grum | long-faced | low | lowering | lugubrious | melancholy | moodish | moody | mopey | moping | mopish | morose | mumpish | oppressed | pessimistic | sad | saturnine | scowling | silent | sour | sulky | sullen | surly | taciturn | tight-lipped | woebegone

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Glum In Webster's Dictionary

\Glum\, n. [See {Gloom}.] Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.
\Glum\, a. Moody; silent; sullen. I frighten people by my glun face. --Thackeray.
\Glum\, v. i. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] --Hawes.

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