Difference between Glum and Sullen

What is the difference between Glum and Sullen?

Glum as an adjective is sad, despondent. while Sullen as an adjective is having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

Glum

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Sad, despondent.

Sullen

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: having a brooding ill temper; sulky.dismal; somber.sluggish; slow.

Example sentence: 'The Queen Is Dead' is not merely the Smiths' best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

We hope you now know whether to use Glum or Sullen in your sentence.

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