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sullen
[ suhl-uhn ]
adjective
- showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
Antonyms: cheerful
- persistently and silently ill-humored; morose.
Synonyms: bad-tempered, cranky, sour, moody, sulky
Antonyms: cheerful
- indicative of gloomy ill humor.
- gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound.
Synonyms: dark, mournful, somber, overcast, clouded, cheerless
- sluggish, as a stream.
- Obsolete. malignant, as planets or influences.
sullen
/ ˈsʌlən /
adjective
- unwilling to talk or be sociable; sulky; morose
- sombre; gloomy
a sullen day
- literary.sluggish; slow
a sullen stream
- obsolete.threatening
noun
- archaic.plural a sullen mood
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Derived Forms
- ˈsullenness, noun
- ˈsullenly, adverb
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Other Words From
- sul·len·ly adverb
- sul·len·ness noun
- un·sul·len adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of sullen1
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Example Sentences
The pro-Russian rebel militia remained sullen and hostile toward the monitors.
Spring is a time of new beginnings, but in the years that followed, I became inward and sullen as those memories took me under.
When the candidate was sullen and grumpy—which was often—he could read his mood and adjust the bubble accordingly.
Strung out on a punishing regimen of diet pills, the once genial young man becomes a sullen, self-pitying wreck.
Kristen Stewart was cast as Marylou at 17, before she played fair-skinned and often sullen Bella Swan in The Twilight series.
They threw down their weapons with sullen obedience and the first great step towards the re-conquest of India was taken.
The boy, a trifle sullen since the last words, stood on the hearth with his back to the fire, his hands clasped behind him.
But for the trees, these sullen skies and level grounds would render England dreary enough.
But it was with sullen reluctance; and mutterings were to be heard, on all sides, that the time would come yet.
They made an odd procession as they marched out of the hall, under the sullen eyes of the baulked cut-throats and their mistress.
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