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词汇 glum
释义 glum
adjective
 informaluk /ɡlʌm/ us /ɡlʌm/glummer | glummest
disappointed or unhappy, and quiet: 沮丧的,闷闷不乐的,愁闷的
You look glum. What's up?你看上去闷闷不乐的,怎么了?
glum aboutHe's very glum about the company's prospects.他对公司的前景感到很不乐观。
Synonyms
blue(SAD)informal
dejected
depressed
despondent
dispirited
doleful
dolorousliterary
down
downcast
downhearted
down in the dumps
gloomy
low
low-spirited
melancholy
miserable(UNHAPPY)
mournful
plaintive
sad(NOT HAPPY)
sorrowfulliterary
the doldrumsinformal
unhappy
If a place is glum, it is not attractive and has nothing that causes pleasure: 阴郁的,死气沉沉的
They live in one glum little room.他们住在一间死气沉沉的小房间里。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
lovesick
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

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Not hopeful
Not attractive to look at

Related words


glumly
glumness

glum | American Dictionary


glum
adjective[ -er/-est only ]
us/ɡlʌm/-mm-
sad and discouraged:
a glum expression

glumly


adverbus/ˈɡlʌm·li/
Marty nodded glumly.

Examples of glum


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The workpeople are not slow; in fact, they are as quick to sense what is afoot as the managing director, with his glum face, as he enters the works.
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Then he must be looking glum.
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There were some glum faces behind him.
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He is very glum and is often predicting the inevitable failure of their mission.
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How sad that the results are so glum.
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Energy was replaced by trance, the dynamic with the static, happy jesting humour with bitter and glum satire.
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Glum heroes refer to the heroes by dying they are unhappy.
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Intimacy, glum and written aesthetics conscientiousness are the main themes of his works.
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Even entries from the second or third month on the trail were perhaps anxious but rarely glum.
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Scholars have observed that, to the modern eye, the figural pieces, with their bulging eyes and glum expressions, have a distinct comical character.
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The boy cat tries to cheer up his glum girlfriend using quotes from the song.
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Because the girl gibbon is often glum, he gives her a couple of milk bottles.
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Most fans had left entirely, and the mood around the garage area was glum.
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The party mood was glum in 2013.
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Her monotone expression and glum one-word answers prompt him to realize that she is a sleepwalker too, and is suffering from the same condition as her father.
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