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The synonyms of “Glum” are: dark, dour, glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen, gloomy, downcast, downhearted, dejected, disconsolate, dispirited, despondent, crestfallen, depressed, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, in low spirits, low-spirited, sad, unhappy, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, forlorn, long-faced, in the doldrums, wretched, lugubrious, sepulchral, mirthless
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “glum” as an adjective can have the following definitions:
crestfallen | Brought low in spirit. He came back empty handed and crestfallen. |
dark | Of a person having dark skin hair or eyes. He lives somewhere in darkest Essex. |
dejected | Sad and depressed; dispirited. Is dejected but trying to look cheerful. |
demoralized | Made less hopeful or enthusiastic. Desperate demoralized people looking for work. |
depressed | (of an object or part of an object) in a lower position, having been pushed down. Depressed by the loss of his job. |
desolate | Providing no shelter or sustenance. I suddenly felt desolate and bereft. |
despondent | Without or almost without hope. She grew more and more despondent. |
disappointed | Sad or displeased because someone or something has failed to fulfil one’s hopes or expectations. Disappointed expectations and thwarted ambitions. |
disconsolate | Causing dejection. A disconsolate winter landscape. |
discouraged | Lacking in resolution. The accident left others discouraged about going there. |
disheartened | Having lost determination or confidence; dispirited. The disheartened instructor tried vainly to arouse their interest. |
dispirited | Filled with melancholy and despondency. A dispirited and divided Party. |
doleful | Filled with or evoking sadness. A doleful look. |
dour | Stubbornly unyielding- T.S.Eliot. A dour self sacrificing life. |
downcast | Directed downward. Her modestly downcast eyes. |
downhearted | Discouraged; in low spirits. Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost. |
forlorn | Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely. The last forlorn attempt. |
gloomy | Depressingly dark. The gloomy forest. |
glowering | Showing a brooding ill humor. |
in low spirits | Directed or bound inward. |
in the doldrums | Holding office. |
long-faced | Having a face longer than the usual. |
low-spirited | Filled with melancholy and despondency. |
lugubrious | Excessively mournful. His face looked even more lugubrious than usual. |
melancholy | Having a feeling of melancholy sad and pensive. Growing more melancholy every hour. |
mirthless | (of a smile or laugh) lacking real amusement and typically expressing irony. He gave a short mirthless laugh. |
miserable | (of a person) habitually morose. Miserable victims of war. |
moody | Showing a brooding ill humor. Grainy film which gives a soft moody effect. |
morose | Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. A morose and unsociable manner. |
mournful | Expressing sorrow. Mournful music. |
sad | Of things that make you feel sad. Feeling sad because his dog had died. |
saturnine | Showing a brooding ill humor. A saturnine setting. |
sepulchral | Gloomy; dismal. Hollow sepulchral tones. |
sour | (of petroleum or natural gas) containing a relatively high proportion of sulphur. He gave her a sour look. |
sullen | Darkened by clouds. A sullen pout. |
unhappy | Causing discomfort. Unhappy caravans straggling afoot through swamps and canebrakes. |
woebegone | Sad or miserable in appearance. A woebegone old shack. |
wretched | Deserving or inciting pity. Spent a wretched night on the floor. |
ashen | Anemic looking from illness or emotion. The ashen morning sky. |
cheerless | Causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy. The corridors were ill lit and cheerless. |
curfew | The hour designated as the beginning of a curfew. To be abroad after curfew without permission was to risk punishment. |
dark | Of a person having dark skin hair or eyes. A dark secret. |
darken | Tarnish or stain. The abuse darkened the rest of their lives. |
dawn | The first light of day. The dawn of civilization. |
daybreak | The time in the morning when daylight first appears; dawn. She set off at daybreak. |
dour | Stubbornly unyielding. A hard dour humourless fanatic. |
downcast | A shaft dug in a mine for extra ventilation. You mustn t be downcast. |
dusk | Become dusk. The sky dusked and the shadows got long and hard. |
dusky | Used in names of animals with dark coloration e g dusky dolphin dusky warbler. The dusky night rides down the sky And ushers in the morn. |
evening | An evening characterized by a particular event or activity. Saturday evenings he invariably fell asleep. |
flashlight | A small portable battery-powered electric lamp. |
gloaming | Twilight; dusk. Hundreds of lights are already shimmering in the gloaming. |
gloomy | Causing dejection. Gloomy forecasts about the economy. |
gray | English radiobiologist in whose honor the gray the SI unit of energy for the absorbed dose of radiation was named 1905 1965. Gray flannel suit. |
morose | Sullen and ill-tempered. A morose and unsociable manner. |
murkiness | The quality of being cloudy. |
nightfall | The onset of night; dusk. We had to get back by nightfall. |
nocturnally | At night. |
saturnine | Showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bli. A saturnine setting. |
shadowy | Lacking in substance- W.A.Butler. Dim shadowy forms. |
shady | Quiet, dark, or concealed. They sprawled under a shady carob tree. |
silhouette | Project on a background such as a screen like a silhouette. We can always use a silhouette of Father Christmas. |
stygian | Hellish- Milton. |
sullen | Bad-tempered and sulky. A sullen pout. |
sunday | First day of the week; observed as a day of rest and worship by most Christians. |
swarthy | Naturally having skin of a dark color. A smile on his swarthy face. |
tenebrous | Dark and gloomy. The tenebrous spiral staircase of the self. |
twilight | Lighted by or as if by twilight Henry Fielding. He loved the twilight. |
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