sullen

Plural: sullens

Adjective Satellite

• showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven
  • "a sullen crowd"
• darkened by clouds

Adj

• Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
• Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
• Sluggish; slow.
• Lonely; solitary; desolate.
• Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
• Obstinate; intractable.

Noun

• One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
• Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

Verb

• To make sullen.

Adjective

• Showing ill humor by a gloomy, reserved manner.

Examples

• a sullen atmosphere
• After losing by two points, a SULLEN silence fell over the Scrabble table.

Synonyms

dark, dour, glowering, glum, heavy, lowering, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, threatening, Miller of Dee, abandoned, adamant, aloner, anchoret, anchorite, ardent, arrant, atrabiliary, atrabilious, augurous, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, baneful, base, bent on, bleak, blitheless, bloody-minded, blue, bodeful, boding, brooding, broody, bullheaded, bummed out, certain, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, chronic, comfortless, confirmed, crawling, creeping, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, deleterious, depraved, depressed, depressing, desolate, despicable, despondent, determined, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, diehard, dire, disastrous, disconsolate, disgruntled, disheartened, dismal, dogged, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, dull, elegiac, elegious, eremite, evil, fatal, flagitious, foreboding, forlorn, gastropodous, gayless, glacial, gloomsome, gloomy, glumps, gray, grief-stricken, grieving, grim, grouchy, gruff, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, harmful, headstrong, heartsick, heartsore, heavy-footed, heavy-hearted, hermit, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-humored, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, ill-omened, ill-starred, ill-tempered, immoral, immovable, inauspicate, inauspicious, incalcitrant, inching, inconsolable, incorrigible, inert, infelicitous, inflexible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, irrefragable, jawfallen, joyless, knavish, labored, lachrymose, lack-laughter, lamentful, lead-footed, leaden, lethargic, loner, lonesome, low, low-speed, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumbering, lumpish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, melancholic, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, monk, mope, mopey, mournful, mulish, nefarious, nefastous, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no joke, no-good, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, omenic, ominous, passionate, peccaminous, peevish, peremptory, pernicious, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, plaintive, plodding, pokey, ponderous, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, querulous, recalcitrant, recluse, refractory, reprehensible, reprobate, resolute, resolved, rigid, sad, saddened, satanic, scathful, self-willed, shattered, shut-in, sinful, sinister, slothlike, slow, slow as Christmas, slow as a snail, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, solemn, solitary, somber, sombre, sordid, sorrow-ridden, sorrowful, sorrowsome, spiritless, stalwart, star-crossed, stately, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, subglacial, sulky, sullen, sunless, tardigrade, tedious, tenacious, terminal, testudineous, thran, threnetic, threnetical, thwart, torpid, tough, triste, tristful, truculent, unbending, uncheerful, uncheery, uncompromising, unconsolable, ungodly, unhappy, unholy, unlively, unmerry, unspeedy, unyielding, vehement, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wilful, willful, wintry, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched, wrong

Antonyms

cheerful, content, lighthearted, pleased

Related Words

peevish, SULLENLY

Anagrams of sullen