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Meaning of Sullen in English

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Sullen

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Adjective

1. dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen

showing a brooding ill humor

Example Sentences:
'a dark scowl'
'the proverbially dour New England Puritan'
'a glum, hopeless shrug'
'he sat in moody silence'
'a morose and unsociable manner'
'a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius'
'a sour temper'
'a sullen crowd'

2. heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening

darkened by clouds

Example Sentences:
'a heavy sky'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Sullen

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adjective
1. 
unwilling to talk or be sociable; sulky; morose
2. 
sombre; gloomy
a sullen day
3. literary
sluggish; slow
a sullen stream
4. obsolete
threatening
noun
5. (plural) archaic
a sullen mood

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Sullen

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adjective
1. 
showing resentment and ill humor by morose, unsociable withdrawal
2. 
gloomy; dismal; sad; depressing
3. 
somber; dull
sullen colors
4. 
slow-moving; sluggish
5.  Obsolete
baleful; threatening

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Sullen

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adj. sul·len·er, sul·len·est
1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent: sullen, gray skies.
3. Sluggish; slow: the sullen current of a canal.

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