Glum

/ɡlʌm/

Synonyms for "glum" (78 found)

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Closest matches (16)

beetle browedbeetle-browed black black-browed blue broken-hearted brooding broody chapfallen close-lipped crabbed crabby crestfallen dark

Adjective(2 words)

bleak dark

Strong matches (23)

dejected depressed dismal dispirited doleful dour down dreary dumpish forlorn frowning gloomy glowering grey grim grum hopelesslong facedlong-faced

Adjective(4 words)

dour downcast gloomy glowering

Related words (39)

low lowering lugubrious melancholy miserable moodish moody mopey moping mopish morbid morose mumpish oppressed pessimistic sad saturnine scowling silent solemn

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sour sulky sullen surly taciturn tight-lipped unhappy woebegone

Adjective(11 words)

melancholy moody morose saturnine somber sour sulkier sulkiest sullen sullenest unhappier

Related word relations

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6 relation types

More general

2 entries

mood descriptortone descriptor

More specific

4 entries

bleak settingdreary moodgrim atmospheresomber mood

Collocations

6 entries

glum expressionglum faceglum lookglum moodglum outlookglum silence

Inflections

2 entries

glummer glummest

Derivations

2 entries

glumly glumness

similar

2 entries

dejected ill-natured

Sample sentences

16 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Don't be so glum about it. Life has its ups and downs.

Source: tatoeba (270608)

Tom is glum.

Source: tatoeba (2236702)

Why are you so glum?

Source: tatoeba (2701550)

Don't be so glum.

Source: tatoeba (2946395)

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