GLUMMER

GLUM

glum

(adjective) moody and melancholic

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

(adjective) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

glummer

comparative form of glum

Anagrams

• grummel

Source: Wiktionary


GLUM

Glum, n. Etym: [See Gloom.]

Definition: Sullenness. [Obs.] Skelton.

Glum, a.

Definition: Moody; silent; sullen. I frighten people by my glun face. Thackeray.

Glum, v. i.

Definition: To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] Hawes.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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