glum as an adjective: - 1
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glum
adjective
1 glum
Moody and melancholic.
Roget 832:
discontented;
dissatisfied
etc.
v.;
unsatisfied,
ungratified;
dissident;
dissentient
etc.
489;
malcontent,
malcontented,
exigent,
exacting,
hypercritical.
repining
etc.
v.;
regretful
etc.
833;
down in the mouth
etc.
(dejected)
837.
in high dudgeon,
in a fume,
in the sulks,
in the dumps,
in bad humor;
glum,
sulky;
sour as a crab;
soured,
sore;
out of humor,
out of temper.
disappointing
etc.
v.;
unsatisfactory.
frustrated
(failure)
732.
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2 glum
Showing a brooding ill humor:
— A glum, hopeless shrug.
synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.
Roget 837:
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless;
uncheerful,
uncheery†;
unlively†;
unhappy
etc.
828;
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat;
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater†;
depressing
etc.
v..
melancholy as a gib cat;"
oppressed with melancholy,
a prey to melancholy;
downcast,
downhearted;
down in the mouth,
down in one's luck;
heavy-hearted;
in the dumps,
down in the dumps,
in the suds,
in the sulks,
in the doldrums;
in doleful dumps,
in bad humor;
sullen;
mumpish†,
dumpish,
mopish†,
moping;
moody,
glum;
sulky
etc.
(discontented)
832;
out of sorts,
out of humor,
out of heart,
out of spirits;
ill at ease,
low spirited,
in low spirits,
a cup too low;
weary
etc.
841;
discouraged,
disheartened;
desponding;
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful†;
dolesome†,
doleful;
woebegone;
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed;
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot;
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure;
grim;
grim-faced,
grim-visaged;
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate;
unconsolable,
inconsolable;
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart;
soul sick,
heart sick;
au desespoir [Fr.];
in despair
etc.
859;
lost.
overcome;
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down;
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828†;
cut up,
dashed,
sunk;
unnerved,
unmanned;
down fallen,
downtrodden;
broken-hearted;
careworn.
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Roget 901a:
sullen,
sulky;
ill-tempered,
ill-humored,
ill-affected,
ill-disposed;
grouty [U.S.];
in an ill temper,
in a bad temper,
in a shocking temper,
in an ill humor,
in a bad humor,
in a shocking humor;
out of temper,
out of humor;
knaggy†,
torvous†,
crusty,
crabbed;
sour,
sour as a crab;
surly
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
moody;
spleenish†,
spleenly†;
splenetic,
cankered.
cross,
crossgrained†;
perverse,
wayward,
humorsome†;
restiff†,
restive;
cantankerous,
intractable,
exceptious†,
sinistrous†,
deaf to reason,
unaccommodating,
rusty,
froward;
cussed [U.S.].
dogged
etc.
(stubborn)
606.
grumpy,
glum,
grim,
grum†,
morose,
frumpish;
in the sulks
etc.
n.;
out of sorts;
scowling,
glowering,
growling;
grouchy.
peevish
etc.
(irascible)
901.
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Polish: posępny, chmurny, ponury
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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