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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#m1)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x1)
- Tom was glum after losing the match. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x2)
- The rain made everyone a bit glum. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x3)
- She sat glumly by the window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x4)
- Cheer up, glum face! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x5)
- The class went glum when break was cancelled. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x6)
- “A dog it is,” growled the glum servant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/#x7)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/20-vocabulary-in-context/10/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «glum» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/glum/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.