glum Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite moody and melancholic
  2. adjective satellite showing a brooding ill humor
    saturnine; dour; morose; sour; dark; glowering; sullen; moody.
    • a dark scowl
    • the proverbially dour New England Puritan
    • a glum, hopeless shrug
    • he sat in moody silence
    • a morose and unsociable manner
    • a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
    • a sour temper
    • a sullen crowd

WordNet

Glum noun
Etymology
See Gloom.
Definitions
  1. Sullenness. Obs. Skelton.
Glum adjective
Definitions
  1. Moody; silent; sullen.
    I frighten people by my glun face. Thackeray.
Glum intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. Obs. Hawes.

Webster 1913