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GLUMNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does glumness mean? 

GLUMNESS (noun)
  The noun GLUMNESS has 2 senses:

1. an atmosphere of depression and melancholyplay

2. a gloomy ill-tempered feelingplay

  Familiarity information: GLUMNESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GLUMNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

An atmosphere of depression and melancholy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

gloom; gloominess; glumness

Context example:

gloom pervaded the office

Hypernyms ("glumness" is a kind of...):

ambiance; ambience; atmosphere (a particular environment or surrounding influence)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "glumness"):

cloud (a cause of worry or gloom or trouble)

bareness; bleakness; desolation; nakedness (a bleak and desolate atmosphere)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A gloomy ill-tempered feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

glumness; moroseness; sullenness

Hypernyms ("glumness" is a kind of...):

moodiness (a sullen gloomy feeling)

Derivation:

glum (moody and melancholic)

glum (showing a brooding ill humor)


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