Synonyms for glum
glʌmglum

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1. glum

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

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

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1. glumadjective

   moody and melancholic

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

   Antonyms:
   good-natured, elated

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"

   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

   Antonyms:
   elated, good-natured

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1. glumadjective

   Synonyms:
   sullen, moody, sulky, morose, sour, crabbed, crusty, grum, glowering, frowning, spleeny, dogged, stubborn, intractable, cross-grained

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1. glumadjective

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "glum":

   morose, head, burial

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How to use glum in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.