GLUM
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- [adj] reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | dark, dejected, dour, gloomy, glowering, ill-natured, long-faced, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Glum\, n. [See {Gloom}.]
Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.
\Glum\, a.
Moody; silent; sullen.
I frighten people by my glun face. --Thackeray.
\Glum\, v. i.
To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
[Obs.] --Hawes.
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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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