Associations to the word «Glum»

Wiktionary

GLUM, verb. (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
GLUM, noun. (obsolete) sullenness
GLUM, adjective. Despondent; moody; sullen

Dictionary definition

GLUM, adjective. Moody and melancholic.
GLUM, adjective. Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats