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glum

adj
/ɡlʌm/

Etymology

From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.

  1. inherited from glome
  2. inherited from glomen

Definitions

  1. Despondent

    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.

  2. To look sullen

    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

  3. sullenness

    • That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA