glum
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- moody and melancholic
- showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
- "a glum, hopeless shrug"
Adj
- Despondent; moody; sullen.
Verb
- To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
Noun
- sullenness
Origin / Etymology
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
Synonyms
bleak, cheerless, comfortless, dark, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, dour, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glowering, glum, gray, grim, grouchy, gruff, ill-humored, ill-tempered, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, moody, morose, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, sour, spiritless, sulky, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Scrabble Score: 7
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