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单词 glum
释义

glum

/ɡlʌm /
adjective (glummer, glummest)
Looking or feeling dejected; morose: the princess looked glum but later cheered up...
  • What's the point in going out for a coffee if you're going to sit there all glum and miserable?
  • He made a concerted effort to smile his way out of his understandably glum expression while I tried to say what I wanted to say in the right kind of way.
  • After a minute he hung up the phone with a glum expression on his face and went back to driving meticulously.

Synonyms

gloomy, downcast, downhearted, dejected, disconsolate, dispirited, despondent, crestfallen, cast down, depressed, disappointed, disheartened, discouraged, demoralized, desolate, heavy-hearted, in low spirits, low-spirited, sad, unhappy, doleful, melancholy, miserable, woebegone, mournful, forlorn, long-faced, fed up, in the doldrums, wretched, lugubrious, morose, sepulchral, saturnine, dour, mirthless
informal blue, down, down in the mouth, down in the dumps
British informal brassed off, cheesed off, looking as if one had lost a pound and found a penny
literary dolorous
archaic chap-fallen, adust

Derivatives

glumly

/ˈɡlʌmli / adverb ...
  • Becky, the eldest, was staring glumly at her latest present.
  • He plays with his Caesar salad, glumly spearing croutons or else sweeping one of those supremely talented hands through his heavy flick of a fringe.
  • ‘Now all we have to do is find out way back out to the motorway again,’ Graham said, just a little glumly.

glumness

/ˈɡlʌmnəs / noun ...
  • The findings of this study show a worrying trend towards glumness.
  • There's relief in his voice, but glumness too, a result of his sudden homelessness and the loss of many of his belongings - clothes, furniture, even musical instruments.
  • There are plenty of hackneyed truisms about ill-winds, silver-linings and darkness-before-dawns that can be tossed into the glumness.

Origin

Mid 16th century: related to dialect glum 'to frown', variant of gloom.

Rhymes

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