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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GLUM, a. Frowning; sullen. [Little used.]
GLUM, n. Sullenness; and, as a verb, to look sullen. [Not in use.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: moody and melancholic
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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]

Merriam Webster's

adjective (glummer; glummest) Etymology: akin to Middle English gloumen to gloom Date: 1547 1. broodingly morose <became glum when they heard the news> 2. dreary, gloomy <a glum countenance> Synonyms: see sullen • glumly adverb • glumness noun

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. (glummer, glummest) looking or feeling dejected; sullen; displeased. Derivatives: glumly adv. glumness n. Etymology: rel. to dial. glum (v.) frown, var. of gloume GLOOM v.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glum Glum, n. [See Gloom.] Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glum Glum, a. Moody; silent; sullen. I frighten people by my glun face. --Thackeray.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Glum Glum, v. i. To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. [Obs.] --Hawes.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(glummer, glummest) Someone who is glum is sad and quiet because they are disappointed or unhappy about something. She was very glum and was obviously missing her children. = despondent ADJ: usu v-link ADJ • glumly When Eleanor returned, I was still sitting glumly on the settee. ADV: ADV with v

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Sullen, moody, sulky, morose, sour, crabbed, crusty, grum, glowering, frowning, spleeny, cross-grained.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Sullen.

Moby Thesaurus

beetle-browed, black, black-browed, brooding, broody, chapfallen, close-lipped, crabbed, crestfallen, dark, dejected, depressed, dismal, dispirited, doleful, dour, down, dumpish, frowning, gloomy, glowering, grim, grum, long-faced, low, lowering, lugubrious, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mumpish, oppressed, pessimistic, sad, saturnine, scowling, silent, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, taciturn, tight-lipped, woebegone