grumとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /ɡɹʌm/
• 韻: -ʌm

形容詞

grum (comparative grummer, superlative grummest)

1. Morose, stern, surly, sullen.
   • 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Stripling, act 2:

     Look not so grum at me; there is something to make thee more cheerful. (Offering him money with one hand, while he receives the bag with the other.)

   • 1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 58:

     She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood.

2. Low, deep in the throat; guttural

   a grum voice

同意語

• glum
• grim
• sour

派生語

• grumly
• grumness

アナグラム

• murg