glum
Adjective Satellite
- moody and melancholic
- showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
- "a glum, hopeless shrug"
Adj
- Despondent; moody; sullen.
Verb
- To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
Noun
- sullenness
Adjective
- Feeling or looking depressed; in low spirits.
Examples
- After scoring only ten points, my opponent looked quite GLUM.
Origin / Etymology
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
Synonyms
dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gloomsome, gloomy, glum, gray, grim, grouchy, gruff, ill-humored, ill-tempered, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sulky, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful
Scrabble Score: 7
glum: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordglum: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
glum: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary