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glum Definition

glum (glum)

adjective glum·mer, glum·mest

feeling or looking gloomy, sullen, or morose

Etymology: prob. < ME glomen, var. of gloum(b)en: see gloom

glum Related Forms
glumly adverb glum·ness noun
glum Synonyms

glum

modif.

glum Usage Examples

Modifying Another Word

  • pretty: Things here at Thruxton were looking pretty glum, the number of corporate days being booked went right down.
  • rather: The next morning I arrived to find the whole office staff sitting outside in the sunshine looking rather glum.
  • so: Don't look so glum - your chaps will get all the glory in the end.
  • very: Wildor deserved better support than she got from her Palemon, Jonathan Cope in a very glum mood.
  • too: Not to be too glum, there has been some movement.
  • not: Despite the new figures, Soil Association policy director Peter Melchett insisted that the situation for organic farming was not glum.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • look: Ronaldo goes into the Brazilian changing room to find all his team mates looking a bit glum.

Modifies a noun

  • face: General Hammond looked around the three glum faces in front of him.
  • expression: A customer [ C ] enters, wearing a United top and glum expression.
  • affair: Some socialist leaders at the time felt that the May Day march should be an entirely serious, perhaps even glum affair.
  • mood: Stacey shrugs off Sean's concern about her glum mood.

Used with adjective complement

  • look: The next morning I arrived to find the whole office staff sitting outside in the sunshine looking rather glum.
  • feel: So like Ann in 1994, should I as a left Labor MP be feeling glum?
  • sound: I wasn't trying to sound glum really, but I guess it came out that way.
  • get: If he gets glum about a check, you have a bum builder.

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