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Word entry · 4 letters

glum

Best crossword clue

"Moody and melancholic"

4 letters · collected on this word page

4 lettersPronunciation /ɡlʌm/Part of speech adjectiveSorted glmuStarts with GEnds with M1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. moody and melancholic

Word origin

Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.

Used in a sentence

  • I[…]frighten people by my glum face.
  • […] and the prospect of three more days of teaching before the weekend break, Mr. MacPherson felt unusually glum.
  • A glummer look replaced the already glum look on Arthur Dent's face.

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