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Glummest vs Grummest - What's the difference?

glummest | grummest |

As adjectives the difference between glummest and grummest

is that glummest is (glum) while grummest is (grum).

glummest

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (glum)

    • 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.

    grummest

    English

    Adjective

    (head)
  • (grum)

    • Anagrams

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    grum

    English

    Adjective

    (grummer)
  • Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
  • * 1891 , Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country , Nebraska 2005, p. 58:
    • She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.
  • Low, deep in the throat; guttural
    • a grum voice

    Synonyms

    * glum * grim * sour

    Derived terms

    * grumly * grumness ----