glum

1. 1.

   moody and melancholic

   Similardejected
2. 2.

   showing a brooding ill humor

   “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”

   “a sour temper”

   “a sullen crowd”

   Synonymsdarkdourgloweringmoodymorosesaturninesoursullen

   Similarill-natured

Other forms of glum

comparative or superlative

glummer

comparative or superlative

glummest

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about glum

What does glum mean?

glum means "moody and melancholic". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in glum?

glum has 1 syllable: glum. In IPA it is /ˈɡlʌm/.

What is another word for glum?

Close synonyms include dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is glum a common word?

glum is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.