glum
sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
Origin of glum
1synonym study For glum
Other words for glum
Other words from glum
- glumly, adverb
- glumness, noun
Words Nearby glum
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How to use glum in a sentence
My youngest son was especially glum as flight delays and a missed connection left him stranded in the airport in Charlottesville, North Carolina, while his brother’s bachelor party went on without him.
Epic delays and flight cancellations: How the US airline industry can get back up to speed | Teresa Carr/Undark | January 12, 2022 | Popular-ScienceThey included Lupoi, who looked sheepishly glum as he nodded to a woman who is apparently his wife amongst the spectators.
It makes for rather glum reading—not least because it was printed in 1816.
Britain’s Weight Crisis Almost Hits U.S. Proportions | Dan Jones | February 21, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTFor Derrida, in 1965, as often, the start of the summer was rather glum.
Derrida’s ‘Of Grammatology’ and the Birth of Deconstruction | Benoît Peeters | December 21, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTMeanwhile, several Wall Street forecasters and other firms have lowered their estimates to the same glum ballpark.
So why are economic forecasters so glum about the fourth quarter?
He sat glum and thoughtful, his mind in unproductive travail, until the captain was announced.
St. Martin's Summer | Rafael SabatiniWhy, I could talk for eight days without taking breath, and I am by nature a glum, silent man.
First Plays | A. A. MilneTessa is thinking of glum things to say to me, do sit down and say something funny.
Tessa Wadsworth's Discipline | Jennie M. DrinkwaterThe thud of a bar dropped in place punctuated the evening's experience with a glum finality.
Valley of the Croen | Lee TarbellI thought so because he passed us as we were coming home and was looking very glum.
Elsie's Vacation and After Events | Martha Finley
British Dictionary definitions for glum
/ (ɡlʌm) /
silent or sullen, as from gloom
Origin of glum
1Derived forms of glum
- glumly, adverb
- glumness, noun
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