Dictionary Definition
sullen adj
1 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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
Middle English solein, from Anglo-Norman solein ("alone"), from sol ("single"), from Latin sōlus ("by oneself alone"). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English.Pronunciation
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- Rhymes: -ʌlən
Adjective
en-adj erAntonyms
Translations
having a brooding ill temper
- Danish: vrangvillig, mut
- Dutch: gemelijk, nors
- Finnish: nyreä, yrmeä
- French: maussade
- Russian: плохое настроение
dismal
Extensive Definition
Sullen may refer to:
- Sullens Swiss municipality
Music
- A Sullen Sky song
- Sullen band
- Sullen Girl song
- Sullen Soul song
- Slumber of Sullen Eyes album/song
- The Sullen Sulcus album
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
antisocial, at odds, autistic, averse, bad-tempered, balking, balky, bashful, beetle-browed, bigoted, black, black-browed, brooding, broody, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous,
case-hardened, chapfallen, choleric, churlish, close, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cursory, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, differing, difficult, disagreeing, disinclined, dismal, disobedient, dissociable, dogged, dogmatic, dour, dreary, dumpish, dyspeptic, fanatic, forced, fractious, fretful, froward, frowning, funereal, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, grumpy, hardheaded, headstrong, hostile, ill-humored,
ill-natured, ill-tempered, incompatible, indisposed, indocile, insociable, intolerant, involuntary, irascible, long-faced,
lowering, lugubrious, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mulish, mumpish, mutinous, nongregarious, obstinate, opinionated, opposed, ornery, out of humor, out of
sorts, overzealous,
peevish, perfunctory, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, pigheaded, pouting, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restive, runty, saturnine, scowling, self-contained,
self-sufficient, self-willed, set, snug, socially incompatible,
sour, splenetic, stiff-necked,
strong-willed, strongheaded, stubborn, stuffy, sulking, sulky, surly, temperamental, tenacious, tenebrose, tenebrous, ugly, unclubbable, uncommunicative,
uncompanionable,
uncongenial,
unconsenting,
uncooperative,
unfriendly, ungenial, unregenerate, unsociable, unsocial, unwilling, wayward, willful, wrongheaded