Definitions of sullen [ˈsʌl ən]

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Definition of 'sullen'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (adj.) sullen
showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.

2.  sullen
persistently and silently ill-humored; morose.

3.  sullen
indicative of gloomy ill humor.

4.  sullen
gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound.

5.  sullen
sluggish, as a stream; slow.

6.  sullen
Obs. malignant, as planets or influences.

Etymology: (1565–75; prob. < AF

Definition of 'sullen'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (adj) dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
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"

2. (adj) heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening
darkened by clouds
"a heavy sky"

Definition of 'sullen'

Webster Dictionary

1. (adj) sullen
lonely; solitary; desolate

2. (adj) sullen
gloomy; dismal; foreboding

3. (adj) sullen
mischievous; malignant; unpropitious

4. (adj) sullen
gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose

5. (adj) sullen
obstinate; intractable

6. (adj) sullen
heavy; dull; sluggish

7. (noun) sullen
one who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit

8. (noun) sullen
sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens

9. (verb) sullen
to make sullen or sluggish

Translation of 'sullen'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: silent and bad-tempered a sullen young man; a sullen expression.
Afrikaans: somber, nors	Arabic: مُتَجَهِّم الوَجْه، مُكْف	Bulgarian: мрачен
Brazilian: mal-encarado	Czech: mrzutý	German: mürrisch
Danish: gnaven	Greek: βαρύθυμος, βλοσυρός	Spanish: hosco, malhumorado, hurañ
Estonian: morn	Farsi: ترشرو	Finnish: nyreä
French: renfrogné	Hebrew: זוֹעֵף	Hindi: रूखा, चिड़चिड़ा, नाराज, र
Croatian: mrk, sumoran	Hungarian: mogorva	Indonesian: muram
Icelandic: fÿldur, fullur af ólund	Italian: arcigno, imbronciato	Japanese: ふきげんな
Korean: 시무룩한	Lithuanian: paniuręs	Latvian: īgns
Malay: muram	Dutch: nors	Norwegian: vrang, mutt, tverr
Polish: ponury	Persian: ترشرو	Pashto: تریو تندی
Portuguese: mal-encarado	Romanian: ursuz	Russian: угрюмый
Slovak: mrzutý	Slovenian: mrk	Serbian: namrgođen
Swedish: surmulen, butter, trumpen	Thai: ที่บึ้งตึง	Turkish: somurtkan
Taiwanese: 慍怒的	Ukrainian: понурий, замкнутий	Urdu: بد مزاج اور ضدی
Vietnamese: rầu rĩ, ảm đạm	Chinese: 愠怒的
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