Sullen
21sullen — adjective a bunch of sullen, spoiled brats Syn: surly, sulky, pouting, sour, morose, resentful, glum, moody, gloomy, grumpy, bad tempered, ill tempered; unresponsive, uncommunicative, farouche, uncivil, unfriendly See note …
22sullen — [16] The etymological notion underlying sullen is of being miserable because one is ‘on one’s own’. The word comes from Anglo Norman *solein ‘alone’, hence ‘miserable’, a derivative of Old French soul ‘alone’ (source of English sole). Cf.⇒ SOLE,… …
23sullen — sullenly, adv. sullenness, n. /sul euhn/, adj. 1. showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve. 2. persistently and silently ill humored; morose. 3. indicative of gloomy ill humor. 4. gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound. 5.… …
24sullen — adjective a) Having a brooding ill temper; sulky. b) Dismal; somber. Syn: sulky, morose Ant: cheerful …
25sullen — Synonyms and related words: antisocial, at odds, autistic, averse, bad tempered, balking, balky, bashful, beetle browed, bigoted, black, black browed, brooding, broody, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous, case hardened, chapfallen …
26sullen — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sulky; ill tempered, ill humored; out of sorts, temper, or humor; crusty, crabbed; sour, surly, discourteous; moody; spleenish, splenetic; resentful; cross[ grained]; perverse, wayward, forward;… …
27sullen — auf die Straße spucken …
28sullen — sul·len || sÊŒlÉ™n adj. sulky, morose, showing a brooding resentment; dark and gloomy; slow, sluggish …
29sullen — adjective bad tempered and sulky. Derivatives sullenly adverb sullenness noun Origin ME (in the senses solitary, averse to company , and unusual ): from Anglo Norman Fr. sulein, from sol sole …
30sullen — a. 1. Cross, morose, sulky, sour, moody. 2. Gloomy, dismal, sombre, dark, funereal, mournful, foreboding, lowering, cheerless. 3. Heavy, dull, sluggish, slow, gloomy. 4. Obstinate, intractable, stubborn, refractory, perverse, vexatious. 5.… …
