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glum <glummer, glummest> [glʌm] ADJ

1. glum (morose, downcast):

glum

мра́чный

glum

угрю́мый

to be/feel glum (about sth)

быть мра́чно настро́енным по отноше́нию к чему́-ли́бо

2. glum (drab):

glum

ту́склый

Usage examples with glum

to be/feel glum (about sth)

быть мра́чно настро́енным по отноше́нию к чему́-ли́бо

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Two days of the working week is spent, on average, feeling glum. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk

Below the sign are four buttons with which to register your response, ranging from green with a smiley face to red with a glum one. www.telegraph.co.uk

I like to be glum at a party. knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

The game absorbs; it is meditative, entailing large periods of glum reflection, sessions of intense pondering in such positions as the ever-baffling silly point. www.theroar.com.au

Even entries from the second or third month on the trail were perhaps anxious but rarely glum. en.wikipedia.org

How sad that the results are so glum. en.wikipedia.org

Glum heroes refer to the heroes by dying they are unhappy. en.wikipedia.org

And speed glum heroes up the line to death. en.wikipedia.org

Because the girl gibbon is often glum, he gives her a couple of milk bottles. en.wikipedia.org

Scholars have observed that, to the modern eye, the figural pieces, with their bulging eyes and glum expressions, have a distinct comical character. en.wikipedia.org

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