Thesaurus / glum
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My youngest son was especially glum as flight delays and a missed connection left him stranded in the airport in Charlottesville, North Carolina, while his brother’s bachelor party went on without him.
EPIC DELAYS AND FLIGHT CANCELLATIONS: HOW THE US AIRLINE INDUSTRY CAN GET BACK UP TO SPEEDTERESA CARR/UNDARKJANUARY 12, 2022POPULAR-SCIENCEHe sat glum and thoughtful, his mind in unproductive travail, until the captain was announced.
ST. MARTIN'S SUMMERRAFAEL SABATINIWhy, I could talk for eight days without taking breath, and I am by nature a glum, silent man.
FIRST PLAYSA. A. MILNETessa is thinking of glum things to say to me, do sit down and say something funny.
TESSA WADSWORTH'S DISCIPLINEJENNIE M. DRINKWATERThe thud of a bar dropped in place punctuated the evening's experience with a glum finality.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLI thought so because he passed us as we were coming home and was looking very glum.
ELSIE'S VACATION AND AFTER EVENTSMARTHA FINLEYWe dispersed: day broadened, broke gray and glum upon Twin Islands––but discovered no lost maid to us.
THE CRUISE OF THE SHINING LIGHTNORMAN DUNCANIt is still said, in vulgar language, that a discontented person looks glum.
A SELECT COLLECTION OF OLD ENGLISH PLAYS, VOLUME 3VARIOUSShe looked doubtfully at the tall, glum figure by her side, and her face was almost haggard.
MYSTERIOUS MR. SABINE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMMrs. Watson seemed to be suffering from a state of nervous excitement, and her husband was glum and silent.
MYSTERIOUS MR. SABINE. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIMWORDS RELATED TO GLUM
- angry
- cantankerous
- capricious
- changeable
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- cross
- dismal
- doleful
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- erratic
- fickle
- fitful
- flighty
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- impulsive
- in a huff
- in the doldrums
- introspective
- irascible
- irritable
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- mercurial
- miserable
- moping
- morose
- offended
- out of sorts
- pensive
- petulant
- piqued
- sad
- saturnine
- short-tempered
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- testy
- touchy
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- acrimonious
- blue
- brusque
- cantankerous
- choleric
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- cross
- dolorous
- dour
- down
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- frowning
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- gruff
- harsh
- having blue devils
- having the blahs
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- in a bad mood
- in a blue funk
- irritable
- low
- melancholy
- moody
- moping
- mournful
- perverse
- perversive
- sad
- saturnine
- singing the blues
- snappish
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- taciturn
- testy
- troubled
- ugly
- acid
- acrid
- acrimonious
- awkward
- bad-tempered
- blunt
- brusque
- captious
- choleric
- churlish
- cranky
- cross
- crotchety
- crusty
- cynical
- difficult
- dour
- fretful
- gloomy
- glum
- grouchy
- harsh
- huffy
- ill-humored
- ill-tempered
- irascible
- irritable
- misanthropic
- morose
- nasty-tempered
- peevish
- perverse
- petulant
- prickly
- saturnine
- snappish
- snappy
- sour
- splenetic
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- tart
- testy
- tough
- trying
- unsociable
- bereaved
- bitter
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- depressed
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartbroken
- heartsick
- heavy-hearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morbid
- morose
- mournful
- not happy
- out of sorts
- pensive
- pessimistic
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- troubled
- unhappy
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- bereaved
- bitter
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartbroken
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morbid
- morose
- mournful
- out of sorts
- pensive
- pessimistic
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- troubled
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
- bereaved
- bitter
- blue
- cheerless
- dejected
- despairing
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- distressed
- doleful
- down
- down in dumps
- down in mouth
- downcast
- forlorn
- gloomy
- glum
- grief-stricken
- grieved
- heartbroken
- heartsick
- heavyhearted
- hurting
- in doldrums
- in grief
- in the dumps
- languishing
- low
- low-spirited
- lugubrious
- melancholy
- morbid
- morose
- mournful
- out of sorts
- pensive
- pessimistic
- sick at heart
- somber
- sorrowful
- sorry
- troubled
- weeping
- wistful
- woebegone
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