Define the word glum"Glum" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Glum \Glum\ (gl[u^]m), n. [See Gloom.]
Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.
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"Glum" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Glum \Glum\, a.
Moody; silent; sullen.
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I frighten people by my glun face. --Thackeray.
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"Glum" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Glum \Glum\, v. i.
To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
[Obs.] --Hawes.
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"glum" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
glum
adj 1: reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces" [syn: gloomy, long-faced]
2: 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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose,
saturnine, sour, sullen]
[also: glummest, glummer]
"glum" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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