GLUM (glummer, glummest)

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Irregular inflected forms: glummer    , glummest   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does glum mean? 

• GLUM (adjective)
  The adjective GLUM has 2 senses:

1. moody and melancholic

2. showing a brooding ill humor

  Familiarity information: GLUM used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLUM (adjective)

Comparative: glummer   
Superlative: glummest   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Moody and melancholic

Similar:

dejected (affected or marked by low spirits)

Derivation:

glumness (a gloomy ill-tempered feeling)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Showing a brooding ill humor

Synonyms:

dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen

Context example:

a sullen crowd

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Derivation:

glumness (a gloomy ill-tempered feeling)

 Context examples 

It certainly seemed to me at the time to be very wicked that a man should look glum when he heard of a British victory; and when they burned his straw image at the gate of his farm, Boy Jim and I were among those who lent a hand.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The peasant in the sheepskins, who had sat glum and silent all evening, had been so heated by his flagon of ale that he was talking loudly and angrily with clenched hands and flashing eyes.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)