glum

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
glum
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glum \Glum\ (gl[u^]m), n. [See {Gloom}.]
   Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glum \Glum\, a.
   Moody; silent; sullen.
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         I frighten people by my glun face.       --Thackeray.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Glum \Glum\, v. i.
   To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
   [Obs.] --Hawes.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "glum":
      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

    

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