Adjective: grum
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
| Comparative | grummer |
| Superlative | grummest |
Perifrastic
Sample Sentences
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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.) [1836, Joanna Baillie, The Stripling, act 2:]
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She cast a speculative look upon her husband, silent and grum as if he had been thus gruffly carved out of wood. [1891, Mary Noailles Murfree, In the "Stranger Poeple's" Country, Nebraska, published 2005, page 58:]
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a grum voice
Adjectives inflected like grum
dim,
mim,
bum,
rum,
frum,
grum,
grim,
glam,
glum,
clam,
trim,
prim,
slim,
Etymology
From Middle English grom, from Old English grom, gram (“angry, wrathful”), from Proto-Germanic *gramaz (“angry, bearing a grudge”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrem- (“to thunder, rub, tear, scratch”). Probably influenced in form by glum. Compare also Danish grum (“cruel, atrocious, fell”), Swedish grym (“cruel, furious, terrible”). See also grim, gram, grump. See: Swedish Adjectives '
grym'.