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11 May 2017
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What is the difference between gloomy and glum and sullen and morose and grim ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between gloomy and glum and sullen and morose and grim ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- English (UK)
Gloomy can be used to describe a place
Glum can describe a person on thing
Sullen can describe the sky or a mood
Morose means Ill tempered
Grim means very serious and gloomy
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Gloomy isn't just a feeling, it could also describe weather.
Glum, I think, is only used for feelings and it means more like grumpy.
I'm not sure about the thing with sullen, morose and grim but I think they basically mean the same thing.
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- English (UK)
Dismal means causing a mood of gloom or depression
Dreary means depressingly dull and bleak and repetitive
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