List of 426 Sets of Synonyms - How they Differ - Total of 2307 Words - 176

SYNONYMS: glum, gloomy, morose, dour.
These adjectives mean having a broodingly cheerless aspect or disposition.

Glum implies silent dejection: Why so glum? The votes haven't been counted yet.
Gloomy suggests somber melancholy: She takes a gloomy view of the future.
Morose implies sourness of temper and a tendency to be uncommunicative: He stared at his dinner plate in a morose and unsociable manner.
Dour especially suggests grimness or humorlessness and sometimes an obstinate nature: They seem poorly dressed, ill-groomed, dour and preoccupied.