Synonyms of the word glum


GLUMDARK - DEJECTED - DOUR - GLOOMY - GLOWERING - ILL-NATURED - LONG-FACED - MOODY - MOROSE - SATURNINE - SOUR - SULLEN

glum

  • v. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
  • n. (obsolete) sullenness.
  • adj. despondent; moody; sullen.

dark

  • adj. Having an absolute or (more often) relative lack of light.
  • adj. (of colour) Dull or deeper in hue; not bright or light.
  • adj. Hidden, secret, obscure.
  • adj. Without moral or spiritual light; sinister, malign.
  • adj. Conducive to hopelessness; depressing or bleak.
  • adj. Lacking progress in science or the arts; said of a time period.
  • adj. With emphasis placed on the unpleasant aspects of life; said of a work of fiction, a work of nonfiction…
  • n. A complete or (more often) partial absence of light.
  • n. (uncountable) Ignorance.
  • n. (uncountable) Nightfall.
  • n. A dark shade or dark passage in a painting, engraving, etc.

dejected

  • adj. Sad and dispirited.
  • v. simple past tense and past participle of deject.

dour

  • adj. Stern, harsh and forbidding.
  • adj. Unyielding and obstinate.
  • adj. Expressing gloom or melancholy; sullenly unhappy.

gloomy

  • adj. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded.
  • adj. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected.

glowering

  • v. present participle of glower.
  • n. The act of giving a glower.

ill-natured

  • adj. Having a bad nature, whether.

long-faced

  • adj. Displaying sadness.

moody

  • adj. Given to sudden or frequent changes of mind; temperamental.
  • adj. sulky or depressed.
  • adj. dour, gloomy or brooding.
  • adj. (slang) dodgy or stolen.

morose

  • adj. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

saturnine

  • adj. Of or born under Saturn's influence.
  • adj. Containing lead, or suffering from lead poisoning (saturnia).
  • adj. Having a tendency to be gloomy, bitter, and sarcastic; sullenly sardonic.
  • adj. Gloomy, depressed, dull.
  • adj. Cold and slow to change and react (refers to mood).

sour

  • adj. Having an acidic, sharp or tangy taste.
  • adj. Made rancid by fermentation, etc.
  • adj. Tasting or smelling rancid.
  • adj. Peevish or bad-tempered.
  • adj. (of soil) Excessively acidic and thus infertile.
  • adj. (of petroleum) Containing excess sulfur.
  • adj. Unfortunate or unfavorable.
  • adj. (music) Off-pitch, out of tune.
  • n. The sensation of a sour taste.
  • n. A drink made with whiskey, lemon or lime juice and sugar.
  • n. (by extension) Any cocktail containing lemon or lime juice.
  • n. A sour or acid substance; whatever produces a painful effect.
  • v. (transitive) To make sour.
  • v. (intransitive) To become sour.
  • v. (transitive) To spoil or mar; to make disenchanted.
  • v. (intransitive) To become disenchanted.
  • v. (transitive) To make (soil) cold and unproductive.
  • v. To macerate (lime) and render it fit for plaster or mortar.

sullen

  • adj. Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
  • adj. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
  • adj. Sluggish; slow.
  • adj. (obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
  • adj. (obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
  • adj. (obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
  • n. (obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
  • n. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

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