About The Word Sullen
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Sullen
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What's The Definition Of Sullen?
[adj] darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
[adj] showing a brooding ill humor; "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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" Synonyms | Synonyms for Sullen: cloudy | dark | dour | glowering | glum | heavy | ill-natured | lowering | moody | morose | saturnine | sour | threatening Related Terms | Find terms related to Sullen: See Also | Sullen In Webster's Dictionary \Sul"len\, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen;
through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L.
solus alone. See {Sole}, a.]
1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Job iii. 14).
2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. --Milton.
Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. --Shak.
3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. --Dryden.
4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill
humor; morose.
And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. --Prior.
5. Obstinate; intractable.
Things are as sullen as we are. --Tillotson.
6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. ``The larger stream was placid, and
even sullen, in its course.'' --Sir W. Scott.
Syn: Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish;
fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign;
intractable.
Usage: {Sullen}, {Sulky}. Both sullen and sulky show
themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an
habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary
sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition;
the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury.
Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The
dreaded east is all the wind that blows. --Pope.
-- {Sul"len*ly}, adv. -- {Sul"len*ness}, n.
\Sul"len\, n. 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [Obs.] --Shak. \Sul"len\, v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. --Feltham. |
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