glum

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word glum. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word glum, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say glum in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word glum you have here. The definition of the word glum will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofglum, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: Glum and glüm

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɡlʌm/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌm

Etymology 1

Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.

Adjective

glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)

  1. despondent; moody; sullen
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom.

Verb

glum (third-person singular simple present glums, present participle glumming, simple past and past participle glummed)

  1. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
    • 1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure:
      upon me he gan to loure and glum,
      Enforcing him so for to ryse withall,
      But that I shortly unto hem did cum,
      With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum

Noun

glum (uncountable)

  1. (obsolete) sullenness
    • c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute:
      That they be deaf and dumb,
      And play silence and glum
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia