Investors are glum, reports Reuters. OK. Fine. But what's glum?
A very nice adjective, from Middle English, meaning depressed, dispirited, pessimistic. Originally, the word meant "to become dark," and indeed that's it! But if you don't want to use the word "glum," there are many more words to use--somber, down in the dumps, gloomy.... All good words, meaning a sad, unhappy state of mind.
