[
UK
/ɡlˈʌmnəs/
]
NOUN
-
an atmosphere of depression and melancholy
gloom pervaded the office - a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
How To Use glumness In A Sentence
- To the casual visitor to France, a country of high-speed trains, well-stocked municipal flower beds and sit-down lunches, such French glumness is baffling.
- He grinned, trying to shake off his morning glumness, and swung his own gleaming blade around, flourishing it with expertise.
- Glumness still inhabits the thoroughfares, but for a few hours, especially the wee small hours after the New York Yankees managed victories over the Arizona Diamondbacks that approached the surrealistic, there was revelling once more.
