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glumness

/gluhm/US // glʌm //UK // (ɡlʌm) //

忧郁症,忧郁,阴郁,黯淡无光

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    glum·mer, glum·mest.

    • : sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.

Synonyms & Antonyms

noungloom

Examples

  • They included Lupoi, who looked sheepishly glum as he nodded to a woman who is apparently his wife amongst the spectators.

  • It makes for rather glum reading—not least because it was printed in 1816.

  • For Derrida, in 1965, as often, the start of the summer was rather glum.

  • Meanwhile, several Wall Street forecasters and other firms have lowered their estimates to the same glum ballpark.

  • So why are economic forecasters so glum about the fourth quarter?

  • He sat glum and thoughtful, his mind in unproductive travail, until the captain was announced.

  • Why, I could talk for eight days without taking breath, and I am by nature a glum, silent man.

  • Tessa is thinking of glum things to say to me, do sit down and say something funny.

  • The thud of a bar dropped in place punctuated the evening's experience with a glum finality.

  • I thought so because he passed us as we were coming home and was looking very glum.