glumadjective
uk/ɡlʌm/us/ɡlʌm/glummer, glummest informaldisappointed or unhappy, and quiet:
You look glum. What's up?
He's very glum about the company's prospects.
If a place is glum, it is not attractive and has nothing that causes pleasure:
They live in one glum little room.
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Feeling sad and unhappy
- (down) in the dumps idiom
- a dog's life idiom
- a long face idiom
- abject
- be cut up idiom
- be down in the mouth idiom
- be in a funk idiom
- bruised
- distressed
- dog
- doleful
- dour
- grieving
- miserably
- mope
- mope around (somewhere)
- morose
- mournful
- not be a happy camper idiom
- wretched
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Not hopeful
Not attractive to look at
glumly
adverb uk/ˈɡlʌm.li/us/ˈɡlʌm.li/
"I'll never find another job at my age," she said glumly.
glumness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈɡlʌm.nəs/us/ˈɡlʌm.nəs/