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glum
adjective /ɡlʌm/ (glummer, glummest) informalDefinition
› disappointed or unhappy, and quiet: You look glum. What's up? He's very glum about the company's prospects.Feeling sad and unhappyNot hopeful › If a place is glum, it is not attractive and has nothing that causes pleasure: They live in one glum little room.Not attractive to look atSerious and unpleasant glumly
/ˈɡlʌm.li/ adverb › "I'll never find another job at my age," she said glumly.Feeling sad and unhappyNot hopeful glumness
/ˈɡlʌm.nəs/ noun [U] Sadness and regret
(Definition of glum adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be in a funk idiom
- be on a hiding to nothing idiom
- bleak adjective
- defeatist adjective
- dejected adjective
- despair verb
- dim adjective (NOT POSITIVE)
- downcast adjective (UNHAPPY)
- downhearted adjective
- forlorn adjective (UNLIKELY TO SUCCEED)
- gloom noun (WITHOUT HOPE)
- gloomy adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- grim adjective (WITHOUT HOPE)
- hopeless adjective
- hopelessly adverb
- not give much for sb's chances idiom
- not have a hope in hell idiom
- pessimism noun
- pessimistic adjective
- prophet of doom idiom
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