An article published in Harvard Men’s Health Watch in 2012 shows heavy coffee drinkers live longer. The researchers examined data from 400,000 people and found out that men who drank six or more coffee cups per day had a 10% lower death rate.
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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
glummest
superlative form of glum: most glum
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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