sullen

[Sul·len]

A bad tempered or gloomy person is sullen. Sullen people are down in the dumps.

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Lonely; solitary; desolate.

Adjective S.
darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"

Adjective S.
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.
Lonely; solitary; desolate.

a.
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

a.
Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

a.
Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.

a.
Obstinate; intractable.

a.
Heavy; dull; sluggish.

n.
One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

n.
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.

v. t.
To make sullen or sluggish.

Sullen

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.

3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.

4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.

And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.

5. Obstinate; intractable.

Things are as sullen as we are.

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. -- 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.

-- Sul"len*ly, adv. -- Sul"len*ness, n.

Sullen

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.

Sullen

Sul"len, v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.]

Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness.

Lonely; solitary; desolate.

One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

To make sullen or sluggish.

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Usage Examples

Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Tell me not of joy: there's none Now my little sparrow's gone He, just as you, Would toy and woo, He would chirp and flatter me, He would hang the wing awhile, Till at length he saw me smile, Lord! how sullen he would be!