glum
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glum¹
- /ɡlʌm/
Rhymes with -ʌm
Where it comes from
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
adjective glummer · glummest
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Despondent; moody; sullen.
I[…]frighten people by my glum face.
Similar: cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome
glum²
- /ɡlʌm/
Rhymes with -ʌm
Where it comes from
From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.
verb glums · glumming · glummed
- To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. upon me he gan to loure and glum, Enforcing him so for to ryse withall, But that I shortly unto hem did cum, With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum
noun
- sullenness That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum
Translations
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adj despondent
| Español | decaído, taciturno, morugo, abatido |
|---|---|
| 한국어 | 침울(沈鬱)하다 chimulhada |
| Français | morose |
| Deutsch | bedrückt, niedergeschlagen, verdrießlich, trist, mürrisch, deprimiert |
| Русский | печальный pečalʹnyj |
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title = {glum},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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