Glum
/ɡlʌm/ adj, noun, verb
adj, noun, verb ·Moderate ·College level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 sullenness obsolete, uncountable
"That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum"
Verb
- 1 To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. obsolete
"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"
Adjective
- 1 Despondent; moody; sullen.
"I[…]frighten people by my glum face."
Adjective
- 1 moody and melancholic wordnet
- 2 showing a brooding ill humor wordnet
Example
More examples"Don't be so glum about it. Life has its ups and downs."
Etymology
Etymology 1
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
Etymology 2
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.