morose adds to glum an element of bitterness or misanthropy.
morose job seekers who are inured to rejection
surly implies gruffness and sullenness of speech or manner.
a typical surly teenager
sulky suggests childish resentment expressed in peevish sullenness.
grew sulky after every spat
crabbed applies to a forbidding morose harshness of manner.
the school's notoriously crabbed headmaster
saturnine describes a heavy forbidding aspect or suggests a bitter disposition.
a saturnine cynic always finding fault
gloomy implies a depression in mood making for seeming sullenness or glumness.
a gloomy mood ushered in by bad news
Example Sentences
There's no need to look so glum—things will get better soon. There was a glum silence in the room.
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