Antonyms for glum
glʌmglum

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1. glum

   Antonyms:
   agreeable, attractive, good-natured, kind, kindly, obliging, pleasant, pleasing, pleasurable

   Synonyms:
   arrogant, austere, crabbed, disagreeable, displeasing, dreary, forbidding, gloomy, grim, harsh, hateful, ill-humored, ill-natured, offensive, repellent, repelling, repulsive, unkind, unpleasant

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1. glumadjective

   moody and melancholic

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, elated

   Synonyms:
   dark, sullen, morose, dour, sour, glowering, saturnine, moody

2. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullenadjective

   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"

   Antonyms:
   elated, good-natured

   Synonyms:
   pertinacious, heavy, forbidding, sullen, dogged, dark, moody, non-white, temperamental, threatening, coloured, disconsolate, dark-skinned, black, gloomy, drear, benighted, off, blue, glowering, obscure, sour, sinister, turned, grim, saturnine, tenacious, off-key, dour, false, unyielding, sorry, drab, dingy, dreary, dismal, persistent, lowering, rancid, morose

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1. glumadjective

   Synonyms:
   moody, dumpish, sullen, sulky, morose, sour

How to use glum in a sentence?

1. Jen Psaki:

   We don't get too glum around here even if things get challenging. Our view and his view is to continue to press forward and address the challenges the American people are facing.

2. Ana Navarro:

   I'm pretty damn glum tonight, (Bush has) gotta take the next 10 days...to really figure out how to dominate in the debates.

3. President Barack Obama:

   They're so glum, they're really so frustrated ... Everybody here's got a list of things we've got to tackle. But maybe what makes us a little different as Democrats is we try to base our analysis on facts.

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