SULLEN


Meaning of SULLEN in English

adjective

showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood

stalked out in sullen silence

Synonyms: ||chuff, ||chuffy, crabbed, crabby, ||dorty, dour, gloomy, glum, morose, mumpish, saturnine, sulky, surly, ugly

Related Word: moody; tenebrific, tenebrose, tenebrous; frowning, glowering, lowering, scowling; cross, fretful, grumpy, ill-humored, peevish, petulant, pouting, pouty, sour; black, hostile, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, ||runty; cynical, pessimistic

Contrasted words: easy, gay, high-spirited, insouciant, lighthearted, smiling

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