Thesaurus: sullen

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1. a. Lonely; solitary; desolate.
2. a. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
3. a. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
4. a. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
5. a. Obstinate; intractable.
6. a. Heavy; dull; sluggish.
7. n. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
8. n. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
9. v. t. To make sullen or sluggish.
10. adj. showing a brooding ill humor
11. adj. darkened by clouds
12. 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. Milton. Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. Shak. 3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. Dryden. 4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. Prior. 5. Obstinate; intractable. Things are as sullen as we are. Tillotson. 6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. "The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course." Sir W. Scott. Syn. -- Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish; fretful; ill- humored; petulant; gloomy; malign; intractable. -- Sullen, Sulky. Both sullen and sulky show themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition; the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury. Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. Pope. -- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n. 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. 2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [Obs.] Shak. To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham.