The Clue
Glum (5 letter answer)
The Answer
MOODY
Tags
Notes
The answer MOODY is seen occasionally, appearing about once every 650 puzzles.
Related Clues
Brooding
Depressed
Dour
Temperamental
Apt to pout
Given to glumness
Ill-humored
Morose, at times
Famed name in tennis
Living in a swing state?
Not even-tempered
Subject to emotional swings
Tennis great of 1920's and 30's
Mazda Senior Tournament winner: 1989
Definition
MOODY as a noun:
1. (Moody, Helen Wills Moody, Helen Wills, Helen Newington Wills) = United States tennis player who dominated women's tennis in the 1920s and 1930s (born in 1906)
2. (Moody, Dwight Lyman Moody) = United States evangelist (1837-1899)
MOODY as an adjective:
1. (dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen) = showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
2. (moody, temperamental) = subject to sharply varying moods; "a temperamental opera singer"