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Glum vs Mopey - What's the difference?

glum | mopey |

As a noun glum

is light.

As an adjective mopey is

given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.

glum

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) glomen, glommen, glomben, . More at (l).

Verb

(glumm)
  • (obsolete) To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
    • (Hawes)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) sullenness
    • (Skelton)

    Etymology 2

    Probably from (etyl) . More at (l).

    Adjective

    (glummer)
  • despondent; moody; sullen
  • * Thackeray
    • I frighten people by my glum face.

    mopey

    English

    Alternative forms

    * mopy

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Given to moping; in a depressed condition, low in spirits; lackadaisical.
  • * 1888 , , Beechcroft at Rockstone , ch. 14:
    • [T]hat is partly owing . . . to young Alexis having been desultory and mopy of late—not taking the interest in his music he did.
  • * 1917 , , Anne's House of Dreams , ch. 11:
    • He got mopy and melancholy, and couldn't or wouldn't work.
  • * 2003 , Michael Kinsley, " Why Bush Angers Liberals," Time , 13 Oct.:
    • In the 1980s, liberals nursed the fear that we really might be dwelling in an irrelevant cul-de-sac outside of the majority American culture. That kept us sullen and mopey .

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