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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. moody and melancholic;

2. showing a brooding ill humor;
- Example: "a dark scowl"
- Example: "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
- Example: "a glum, hopeless shrug"
- Example: "he sat in moody silence"
- Example: "a morose and unsociable manner"
- Example: "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- Example: "a sour temper"
- Example: "a sullen crowd"
[syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glum \Glum\, v. i.
   To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
   [Obs.] --Hawes.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glum \Glum\ (gl[u^]m), n. [See Gloom.]
   Sullenness. [Obs.] --Skelton.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Glum \Glum\, a.
   Moody; silent; sullen.
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         I frighten people by my glun face.       --Thackeray.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

glum
    adj 1: moody and melancholic
    2: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
       proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
       shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable
       manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"-
       Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark,
       dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine,
       sour, sullen]