DEEn Dictionary De - En
DeEs De - Es
DePt De - Pt
 Vocabulary trainer

Spec. subjects Grammar Abbreviations Random search Preferences
Search in Sprachauswahl
glum
Search for:
Mini search box
 
English Dictionary: glum by the DICT Development Group
4 results for glum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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"
    Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glum \Glum\, n. [See {Gloom}.]
      Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glum \Glum\, a.
      Moody; silent; sullen.
  
               I frighten people by my glun face.         --Thackeray.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glum \Glum\, v. i.
      To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
      [Obs.] --Hawes.
No guarantee of accuracy or completeness!
©TU Chemnitz, 2006-2024
Your feedback:
Ad partners