glum

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Sad, gloomy, and low in spirits.

   He looked glum all day after hearing the bad news.

From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom. The noun is from Middle English glome, from the verb.

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