[
US
/ˈɡɫəm/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈʌm/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈʌm/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- moody and melancholic
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showing a brooding ill humor
a sour temper
a sullen crowd
a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
a dark scowl
the proverbially dour New England Puritan
a morose and unsociable manner
he sat in moody silence
a glum, hopeless shrug
How To Use glum In A Sentence
- His demeanor was that of a person who is far from pleased with the course of events, and the word glum best describes his expression. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
- It took her two false starts - with analysts Bruni-Sarkozy described as "glum" - before she hit on the right one. Latest News - Yahoo!7 News
- BTW … the online article was written long ago and the LJW staff will, I am sure, update it when they have puddleglum (Anonymous) says … kansas redlegs: yeah I know exactly what you mean. LJWorld.com stories: News
- British summers mean we get rain, wind, sun, snow and frost all in the same week but our winters are just so glum, no blizzards just unrelenting dankness.
- All over Europe, the fringes of suburbia are blighted by the dreary apparatus of industry - undecorated sheds and dour offices in glum lots girdled by sterile acres of parking.
- The _first glume_ is chartaceous, obovate-oblong, obtuse, many-nerved (thirteen or more), thinly ciliate with long hairs and with A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- Objective To evaluate the effects of meglumine diatrizoate mucilage ( MDC ) used as contrast medium in bronchography.
- Imagine his glum answer when asked if he'd ever made an ace: ‘Yeah, but nobody was there to see it.’
- Racemes many, fascicled or panicled, glume I of sessile spikelets glabrous and pitted. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
- The figure wearing dark suit, open-necked shirt and stubble, sheltering beneath an umbrella from the torrential rain outside a London cinema, could hardly look more glum.