Bleak vs Glum - What's the difference?
bleak | glum |
Without color; pale; pallid.
* Foxe
Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.
* Wordsworth
* Longfellow
Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.
A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus ), of the family Cyprinidae.
(obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
(obsolete) sullenness
despondent; moody; sullen
* Thackeray
As adjectives the difference between bleak and glum
is that bleak is without color; pale; pallid while glum is despondent; moody; sullen.As nouns the difference between bleak and glum
is that bleak is a small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae while glum is sullenness.As a verb glum is
to look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.bleak
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) bleke (also bleche > English .Adjective
(er)- When she came out she looked as pale and as bleak as one that were laid out dead.
- Wastes too bleak to rear / The common growth of earth, the foodful ear.
- at daybreak, on the bleak sea beach
- A bleak and bare rock.
- They escaped across the bleak landscape.
- A bleak , crater-pocked moonscape.
- We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.
- Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.
- A bleak future is in store for you.
- The news is bleak .
- The survey paints a bleak picture.
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) bleikja .Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia bleak)Synonyms
* alburn * blayReferences
Anagrams
* *glum
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) glomen, glommen, glomben, . More at (l).Verb
(glumm)- (Hawes)
Noun
(-)- (Skelton)
Etymology 2
Probably from (etyl) . More at (l).Adjective
(glummer)- I frighten people by my glum face.