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Meaning of 'sullen' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Sullen [ a.]
- Lonely; solitary; desolate.
- Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
- Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
- Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
- Obstinate; intractable.
- Heavy; dull; sluggish.
2 . Sullen [ n.]
- One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
- Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
3 . Sullen [ v. t.]
- To make sullen or sluggish.

Meaning of 'sullen' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . sullen [ s]
Meaning (1):
- showing a brooding ill humor
Example in sentence:
  • a dark scowl;
  • a glum, hopeless shrug;
  • a morose and unsociable manner;
  • a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius;
  • a sour temper;
  • a sullen crowd;
  • he sat in moody silence;
  • the proverbially dour New England Puritan
Meaning (2):
- darkened by clouds
Example in sentence:
  • a heavy sky

Nearby Words:

sula sulcate sulcated sulcation sulci sulciform sulcus suleah fish sulk sulker

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