Glum

Definition: Glum

Glum

Adjective

1. Reflecting gloom; "gloomy faces".

2. 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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "glum" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Literature

Slang in 1811

Synonyms: Glum

Dejection

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; (discontented); 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; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen.

Discontent

Verb: be discontented; Adjective: quarrel with one's bread and butter; repine; regret; wish one at the bottom of the Red Sea; take on, take to heart; shrug the shoulders; make a wry face, pull a long face; knit one's brows; look blue, look black, look black as thunder, look blank, look glum.

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.

Sullenness

Grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks; Noun: out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.

Crosswords: Glum

Books

• Saga of Viga Glum (reference)

  (more book examples)

A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face

To adopt a trivial word, that is to say, a popular and a true one, they looked glum.

The three men on the seat were glum as they drove toward home over the dusty road

Expressions using "glum": dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen ♦ feel glum ♦ look glum. Additional references.

Beginning with "glum": glum-faced, glum-looking.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, morose, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i pikëlluar (afflicted, distressed, distressful, dolorous, gaunt, heartsick, mournful, rueful, sad, sorrowful, sorry, woeful, woesome). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كالح الوجه, ‏كالح (gloomy, grave, grim, morose, stern, surly), ‏كئيب (bleak, blue, cheerless, damp, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, depressive, desolate, disconsolate, dismal, dispirited, distressful, distressing, doleful, dolorous, down, downcast, down-hearted, drear, dreary, droopy, dyspeptic, funeral, funereal, gloomy, gray, grey, grief-stricken, grieved, grievous, heavy-hearted, ill, joyless, leaden, lifeless, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mournful, out of spirits, rueful, sad, saddening, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, tearful, weary), ‏متجهم (gloomy, grim, morose, sulky, sullen). (various references)

Bulgarian 

навъсен (beetle-browed, gloomy, lowering, morose, murky, saturnine, somber, sombre, surly), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, morose, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references)

Chinese 

愁苦. (various references)

Czech

zachmuřený, stísnìný (confined, pent, pent up), sklíèený (blue, crest-fallen, dejected, depressed, despondent, disconsolate, downhearted, gloomy, lower-spirited, low-spirited, mopish, stricken, unhappy), podmraèený, mrzutý (annoying, awkward, bad tempered, chuff, crabbed, cranky, cross, crusty, dumpish, frumpish, grouchy, joyless, Moody, out of temper, peevish, pettish, rugged, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vexatious). (various references)

Farsi 

ملول (Heartsick, Lukewarm), کدر (Opaque, Turbid), افسرده (Deject, Gloomy, Hypochondriac, Pensive, Woebegone), اوقات تلخ (Angry, Indignant, Stuffy), رنجیده (Angry, Indignant, Sulky). (various references)

Finnish

nyrpeä (cross, morose, sullen, surly). (various references)

French

triste (gloomy), morne (gloomy), maussade, mélancolique (gloomy). (various references)

German

verdrießlich (morose, irksome, peevish, splenetic, surlily). (various references)

Greek 

κατσούφησ (surly), σκυθρωπόσ (cross, dour, joyless, morose, saturnine, sulky, sullen, surly), σκυθρωπός (sullen, surly), μελαγχολικός (gloomy). (various references)

Hebrew 

מדוכדך (crestfallen, desolate, despondent, doldrums, down in the mouth, dumpy, gloomy, melancholy, somber). (various references)

Hungarian

rosszkedvû (bad tempered, be off his rocker, bloody minded, disgruntled, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, in a bad temper, liverish, Moody, morose, splenetic), rosszkedvű (have a fit of blues, pouting, sulky), komor (somber, dismal, gaunt, gloomy, saturnine). (various references)

Indonesian

murung (lugubrious, melancholic, mopish, mopy, morbid, morose, querulous). (various references)

Italian

taciturno (taciturn), depresso (depressed), accigliato (dark, frowning, gloomy, loweringly, obfuscatory), abbattuto (downcast). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

根暗 (dark-natured, dour, insular, introverted, moody, pessimistic). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ねくら (dark-natured, dour, insular, introverted, moody, pessimistic). (various references)

Korean 

무뚝뚝한 (Blunt). (various references)

Manx

grouw (dark, dark-looking, dejected, dismal, forbidding, ghastly, gloomy, grim, surly), groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, grim, gruff, mopish, morose, saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly). (various references)

Norwegian

nedtrykt (depressed), dyster (gloomy). (various references)

Pig Latin

umglay.(various references)

Portuguese

sorumbático (gloomily, moody), sombrio (dismal, dreary, gaunt, somber), mal-humorado (bad-tempered, cantankerous, choleric, crusty, ill-humored, ill-humoured, ill-tempered, moody, mumpish, snappish, snappy, snotty, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy), macambúzio (gloomily, mopish), carregado (cloudy, dismal, fraught, gloomily, gloomy, laden, live, loaded, sable, thick, undischarged), carrancudo (beetle, beetling, moody, sulky, sullen, surly). (various references)

Romanian

trist (bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, darkish, depressing, dispirited, doleful, dolefully, dolorous, downcast, drab, dreary, dull, dumpish, elegiac, joyless, lamenting, maudlin, melancholy, miserable, mournful, mournfully, pensive, pensively, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, splenetic, sullen, tough, unfortunate, unhappy, woebegone, woeful), întunecat (black, blear, blind, clouded, cloudy, dark, darkish, darksome, deep, dismal, dull, dusky, fuliginous, fuscous, gloomy, inky, lowering, muddy, murk, obscurely, opaque, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, tenebrous), încruntat (frowning, glumly, rugged, stuffy, sullen). (various references)

Russian 

угрюмый (morose, sullen, surly), мрачный (bleak, dismal, gloomy, macabre, morose, murky, saturnine, somber). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

natmuren (overcast, somber, sombre, thundery), mrzovoljan (cantankerous, cranky, grouchy, ill-humored, petulant, saturnine, shirty, spleenful, splenetic, sulky, testy). (various references)

Spanish

triste (dismal, dreary, sad, miserable, bleak, doleful, gaunt, joyless, somber, unhappy), taciturno (taciturn), sombrío (cheerless, dark, dim, dingy, dismal, dull, shadowy, somber, sombre), melancólico (melancholic), malhumorado (peevish, sulky), abatido (dejected, depressed). (various references)

Swedish

trumpen (moody, sulky, sullen), dyster (dreary, lugubrious, morose, murky, saturnine). (various references)

Thai

หม่นหมอง. (various references)

Turkish

somurtkan (grumpy, morose, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, unsmiling), hüzünlü (blue, cheerless, depressing, doleful, downcast, dreary, elegiac, funereal, gloomy, melancholic, rueful, sad, somber, sombre, sorrowful), asık suratlı (dour, lugubrious, morose, repining, saturnine, straight-faced, sulky, surly, vinegary), üzgün (afflicted, aggrieved, bleak, careworn, chagrined, crestfallen, dejected, downcast, downhearted, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-hearted, low-spirited, pained, regretful, rueful, sad, sick at heart, sorrowful, sorry, stricken, tearful, troubled, unhappy, upset, worried). (various references)

Ukrainian

хмарний (cloudy, murky, nebulose, nebulous, nubilous, overcast), насуплюватися (frown), похмурий (adust, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, drear, dreary, dull, dusky, frowning, gash, gaunt, ghastly, gloomy, grave, gruff, hard-faced, inhospitable, lowering, macabre, mopish, mournful, murk, nightly, obscure, overcast, sable, saturnine, sepulchral, shadowy, stygian, sullen, surly, tenebrous). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rầu rĩ cau có, nhăn nhó (bear, borne), buồn bã (dumpish, dumpy, mopish, plaintive, rueful, sadly, sepulchral, tearful), ủ rũ. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "glum": glume, glumes, glumly, glummer, glummest, glumness, glumnesses, glumpier, glumpiest, glumpily, glumpy. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Glum" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Bluhm, dlum, elum, galum, Gaum, ghum, glaim, glamm, glau, glem, gleme, Glemm, glime, glok, glomb, glon, glox, glu, glub, gluc, gluf, glug, gluk, gluma, glumm, glummo, glums, glumy, glunt, gluom, gluv, Glyme, gnum, golum, gourm, Gulam, Gulma, gumi, gumm, gumu, iglom, igluk, ilum, lgium, olum. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gul, gum, lug, lum, mug.

-2 letters: mu, um.

+1 letter: algum, almug, glume, mogul.

+2 letters: algums, almugs, glomus, glumes, glumly, glumpy, legume, moguls, mugful, muling, smugly.

+3 letters: bluegum, bluming, culming, fluming, gallium, galumph, gemmule, glamour, glummer, grumble, grumbly, gumboil, gumless, gumlike, jugulum, legumes, legumin, lugworm, lumbago, lumping, mauling, moulage, mugfuls, muggily, mulling, plumage, pluming, slumgum, smuggle.

+4 letters: amygdule, blackgum, bluegums, bumbling, cingulum, clumping, coagulum, dumpling, eulogium, flumping, fugleman, fuglemen, fumbling, fumingly, galbanum, galliums, galumphs, gemmules, glamours, glaucoma, gloomful, glucinum, glummest, glumness, glumpier, glumpily, grumbled, grumbler, grumbles, grumpily, gumboils, gumbotil, gunmetal, humbling, illuming, jumbling, legumins, lugworms, lumbagos, lungworm, maculing, mealybug, miauling, moulages, moulding, moulting, mucilage, muddling, muffling, mulching, mulcting, mulligan, multiage, mumbling, muscling, musingly, muzzling, ngultrum, plumaged, plumages, plumbago, plumbing, plumping, promulge, pugilism, reluming, rumbling, rumpling, slumgums, slumming, slumping, smudgily, smuggled, smuggler, smuggles, tumbling, unmingle, voluming.