Don't be so glum about it. Life has its ups and downs.
Source: tatoeba (270608)
Glum
//ɡlʌm//
Synonyms for "glum" (152 found)
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Closest matches (31)
Strong matches (45)
Related words (76)
Adjective(44 words)
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Synonyms
1 entriesderived
2 entriesetymologically related_to
2 entriesrelated to
6 entriessimilar
3 entriesTranslations
40 translations across 16 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- навъсен adj (despondent)
- намръщен adj (despondent)
Czech
3 entries- rozmrzelý adj (despondent)
- zachmuřený adj (despondent)
- zasmušilý adj (despondent)
Dutch
1 entries- sip adj (despondent)
Finnish
3 entries- juro adj (despondent)
- synkkä adj (despondent)
- vakava adj (despondent)
French
1 entries- morose adj (despondent)
German
4 entries- bedrückt adj (despondent)
- deprimiert adj (despondent)
- dunkel adj (despondent)
- missmutig adj (despondent)
Hungarian
4 entries- borús adj (despondent)
- komor adj (despondent)
- mogorva adj (despondent)
- morcos adj (despondent)
Irish
2 entries- púiceach adj (despondent)
- púiciúil adj (despondent)
Korean
1 entries- 침울(沈鬱)하다 adj (despondent)
Māori
1 entries- poururu adj (despondent)
Norman
1 entries- ponseux adj (despondent)
Norwegian
1 entries- tungsindig adj (despondent)
Russian
1 entries- печальный adj (despondent)
Scottish Gaelic
1 entries- gruamach adj (despondent)
Spanish
4 entries- abatido adj (despondent)
- decaído adj (despondent)
- morugo adj (despondent)
- taciturno adj (despondent)
Swedish
2 entries- dyster adj (despondent)
- trumpen adj (despondent)
Sample sentences
16 total sentences available.
Tom is glum.
Source: tatoeba (2236702)
Why are you so glum?
Source: tatoeba (2701550)
Don't be so glum.
Source: tatoeba (2946395)
Showing 4 of 16 available sentences.
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