SULLEN


Meaning of SULLEN in English

adj. & n.

--adj.

1. morose, resentful, sulky, unforgiving, unsociable.

2 a (of a thing) slow-moving. b dismal, melancholy (a sullen sky).

--n. (in pl., usu. prec. by the) archaic a sullen frame of mind; depression.

Derivatives:

sullenly adv. sullenness n.

Etymology: 16th-c. alt. of ME solein f. AF f. sol SOLE(3)

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.