transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈsə-lən ]
adjective
Etymology: Middle English solein solitary, from Anglo-French sulein, solain, perhaps from sol, soul single, sole + - ain after Old French soltain solitary, private, from Late Latin solitaneus, ultimately from Latin solus alone
Date: 14th century
1.
a. : gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed
a sullen crowd
b. : suggesting a sullen state : lowering
a sullen countenance
2. : dull or somber in sound or color
3. : dismal , gloomy
a sullen morning
4. : moving sluggishly
a sullen river
• sul·len·ly adverb
• sul·len·ness ˈsə-lə(n)-nəs noun
Synonyms:
sullen , glum , morose , surly , sulky , crabbed , saturnine , gloomy mean showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood. sullen implies a silent ill humor and a refusal to be sociable
remained sullen amid the festivities
glum suggests a silent dispiritedness
a glum candidate left to ponder a stunning defeat
morose adds to glum an element of bitterness or misanthropy
morose job seekers who are inured to rejection
surly implies gruffness and sullenness of speech or manner
a typical surly teenager
sulky suggests childish resentment expressed in peevish sullenness
grew sulky after every spat
crabbed applies to a forbidding morose harshness of manner
the school's notoriously crabbed headmaster
saturnine describes a heavy forbidding aspect or suggests a bitter disposition
a saturnine cynic always finding fault
gloomy implies a depression in mood making for seeming sullenness or glumness
a gloomy mood ushered in by bad news