glum
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 7
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
Definition of glum
3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
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Despondent; moody; sullen.
“I[…]frighten people by my glum face.”
“[…] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.”
“A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.”
“U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who had sought to save Chevron during hours of argument in January, looks slightly glum in her seat at the counsel tables.”
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adj
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Despondent; moody; sullen.
“I[…]frighten people by my glum face.”
“[…] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.”
“A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.”
“U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar, who had sought to save Chevron during hours of argument in January, looks slightly glum in her seat at the counsel tables.”
verb
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(obsolete)To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
“upon me he gan to loure and glum, Enforcing him so for to ryse withall, But that I shortly unto hem did cum, With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum”
noun
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(obsolete, uncountable)sullenness
“That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum”
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
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