different between downhearted vs glum
downhearted
English
Alternative forms
- down-hearted
Etymology
down +? hearted
Adjective
downhearted
- Sad, discouraged, in low spirits, unhappy, having no hope
- Fans must not be downhearted even though we lost.
Translations
Derived terms
- downheartedly
- downheartedness
See also
- have one's heart in one's boots
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glum
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?l?m/
- Rhymes: -?m
Etymology 1
Probably from Middle Low German glum (“glum”), related to German dialectal glumm (“gloomy, troubled, turbid”). More at gloomy.
Adjective
glum (comparative glummer, superlative glummest)
- despondent; moody; sullen
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
- I […] frighten people by my glum face.
- 1857-1859, William Makepeace Thackeray, The Virginians
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English glomen, glommen, glomben, gloumben (“to frown, look sullen”), from *glom (“gloom”). More at gloom.
Verb
glum (third-person singular simple present glums, present participle glumming, simple past and past participle glummed)
- (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
- 1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure
- upon me he gan to loure and glum,
Enforcing him so for to ryse withall,
But that I shortly unto hem did cum,
With his thre hedes he spytte all his venum
- upon me he gan to loure and glum,
- 1509, Stephen Hawes, The Passetyme of Pleasure
Noun
glum (uncountable)
- (obsolete) sullenness
- c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute
- That they be deaf and dumb,
And play silence and glum
- That they be deaf and dumb,
- c. 1550, John Skelton, Colyn Cloute
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