glum

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.