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comparative glummer, superlative glummest
despondent; moody; sullen quotations examples
I […] frighten people by my glum face.
1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1858–1859
[…] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.
1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.
1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 23
third-person singular simple present glums, present participle glumming, simple past and past participle glummed
(obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum. quotations
upon me he gan to loure and glum, Enforcing him so for to ryse withall, But that I shortly unto hem did cum, With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum
1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure
uncountable
(obsolete) sullenness quotations
That they be deaf and dumb, And play silence and glum
c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute