Glum vs Atrabilarian - What's the difference?
glum | atrabilarian |
(obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
(obsolete) sullenness
despondent; moody; sullen
* Thackeray
Characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.
As adjectives the difference between glum and atrabilarian
is that glum is despondent; moody; sullen while atrabilarian is characterized by melancholy or glum; atrabilarious; atrabilious.As a verb glum
is (obsolete) to look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.As a noun glum
is (obsolete) sullenness.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.
atrabilarian
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- (Arbuthnot)