Glum

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glum \Glum\ (gl[u^]m), n. [See {Gloom}.]
     Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Glum \Glum\, a.
     Moody; silent; sullen.
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           I frighten people by my glun face.       --Thackeray.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Glum \Glum\, v. i.
     To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
     [Obs.] --Hawes.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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