how to pronounce glum

/ɡlʌm/

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the above transcription of glum is a detailed (narrow) transcription according to the rules of the International Phonetic Association; you can find a description of each symbol by clicking the phoneme buttons in the secction below.

glum is pronounced in one syllable

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An example use of glum in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… look so tarnation glum tarnation that's …”

meaning of glum

Glum means sad, gloomy, or having a gloomy expression.

glum frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word glum occurs in english on average 1.2 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.