glummer; glummest
glumly
adverb
glumness
noun
Synonyms
- black
- bleak
- cheerless
- chill
- Cimmerian
- cloudy
- cold
- comfortless
- dark
- darkening
- depressing
- depressive
- desolate
- dire
- disconsolate
- dismal
- drear
- dreary
- dreich [chiefly Scottish]
- elegiac
- elegiacal
- forlorn
- funereal
- gloomy
- godforsaken
- gray
- grey
- lonely
- lonesome
- lugubrious
- miserable
- morbid
- morose
- murky
- plutonian
- saturnine
- sepulchral
- solemn
- somber
- sombre
- sullen
- sunless
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- wretched
Examples of glum in a Sentence
There's no need to look so glum—things will get better soon.
There was a glum silence in the room.
Recent Examples on the Web
The prospects have been so glum during the last four years that even if the ACM had loosened the chart requirement to the top 50 during that window, the industry still would not have mustered three qualifying entries.
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Tom Roland, Billboard, 13 May 2024
Indeed, in front of an ultimately glum crowd, Anthony Davis missed a pretty big Tuesday night.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
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Tom Roland, Billboard, 13 May 2024
Indeed, in front of an ultimately glum crowd, Anthony Davis missed a pretty big Tuesday night.
—Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 10 Apr. 2024
See all Example Sentences for glum
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“Glum.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/glum. Accessed 29 May. 2024.
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glum
adjective
glummer; glummest
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2
: seeming gloomy and sad
a glum expression
glumly
adverb
glumness
noun
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