glum

«glum» in Mova's school dictionary: Sad and quiet, looking unhappy and disappointed — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

adjective (glum, glummer, glummest); adverb: glumly

meaning for a pupil

Sad and quiet, looking unhappy and disappointed. tree →

sense in the lessons

In stories «glum» shows that a character is down, often after bad news, without crying. Phrases: «look glum», «a glum face», «feeling glum».

examples

• Why do you look so glum? tree →
• Tom was glum after losing the match. tree →
• The rain made everyone a bit glum. tree →
• She sat glumly by the window. tree →
• Cheer up, glum face! tree →
• The class went glum when break was cancelled. tree →
• “A dog it is,” growled the glum servant. tree →

note

Comparative glummer, glummest (double m). Milder than «miserable».

In the corpora

• Glum, sad, miserable and heartbroken all mean unhappy, but each a different amount.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «glum» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.