Synonyms of glum

adjectiveDespondent; moody; sullen.

• cheerlessDevoid of cheer; gloomy.
• comfortless
• bleak
• darkExtremely sad, depressing, or somber, typically due to, or marked by, a tragic or undesirable event.
• moroseSullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
• depressing
• desolateSad, forlorn and hopeless.
• dire
• disconsolateSeemingly beyond consolation; inconsolable.
• dismalDepressing, dreary, cheerless.
• dolefulFilled with grief, mournful, bringing feelings of sadness.
• dolesomeCharacterised or marked by sorrow and grief; doleful; dismal; gloomy.
• drearDreary.
• drearisomeCharacterised or marked by dreariness.
• dreary
• dreich UK, dialectal
• forlornPitifully sad, wretched, miserable; lonely, especially from feeling abandoned, deserted, forsaken.
• gayless
• gray
• gloomsomeCharacterised or marked by gloom.
• gloomySuffering from gloom; melancholy; dejected.
• grim
• joylessWithout joy; unhappy, sad.
• lack-laughterCheerless; sombre; serious.
• lugubriousGloomy, mournful or dismal, especially to an exaggerated degree.
• melancholyAffected with great sadness or depression.
• mirthlessLacking mirth; devoid of joy; sad.
• miserableIn a state of misery: very sad, ill, or poor.
• no joke
• saturnineOf a person: having a tendency to be cold and gloomy.
• somber
• sombreMelancholic, gloomy, dreary, dismal; grim.
• spiritlessLacking energy, drive, motivation or emotion. Enervated.
• sullenGloomy; dismal; foreboding.
• sunless
• uncheerfulNot cheerful.
• uncheeryNot cheery; gloomy, pessimistic.
• unhappyNot happy; sad.
• unmerryNot merry, the opposite of merry; sad, gloomy.
• wintry
• woefulFull of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity.
• grouchyIrritable; easily upset; angry; tending to complain.
• gruff
• ill-temperedSynonym of bad-tempered.
• ill-humored
• moodySulky or depressed.
• sulkySilent and withdrawn after being upset.
• solemn obsolete