glum

• IPA^(key): /ɡlʌm/
• Rhymes: -ʌm

Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.

glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)

1. despondent; moody; sullen
   • Thackeray

     I frighten people by my glum face.

From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom.

glum (third-person singular simple present glums, present participle glumming, simple past and past participle glummed)

1. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.

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glum (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) sullenness

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