glum
adjective/ɡlʌm/
/ɡlʌm/
- sad, quiet and unhappy synonym gloomy
- The players sat there with glum looks on their faces.
- The couple looked distinctly glum.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryGlum is used with these nouns:- look
Word Originmid 16th cent.: related to dialect glum ‘to frown’, variant of gloom.Definitions on the go
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