Advertizing D▼
sullen (adj.)
1.sullen or unfriendly in appearance
2.darkened by clouds"a heavy sky"
3.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 t..."
4.wasting time
Advertizing ▼
Merriam Webster
SullenSul"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. -- 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.
SullenSul"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.
SullenSul"len, v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.]
Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. Feltham.
Advertizing ▼
⇨ definition of Wikipedia
sullen (adj.)
bad-tempered, beetle-browed, brusque, cheerless, clouded, crabbed, crotchety, crusty, curt, dark, despairing, dilatory, dismal, dour, dull, gloomy, glowering, glum, grouchy, gruff, grumbling, grumpy, heavy, ill-tempered, laggard, lowering, moody, morbid, morose, mournful, overcast, peevish, pessimistic, pokey, poky, quarrelsome, reserved, saturnine, scowling, silent, slow, sluggish, snappish, snappy, sombre, sour, sulky, surly, testy, threatening
See also
sullen (adj.)
↘ deliberateness, deliberation, dilatorily, easy, slow, slowly, slowness, sluggishly, tardily, torpor, unhurriedness ↗ gnarl, growl, grumble, grunt, oink, snarl
sullen (adj.)
grimace; face[Classe]
boudeur (fr)[Classe]
qui grimace (fr)[Classe]
bourru (fr)[Classe]
physionomie désagréable (fr)[termes liés]
unfriendly[Similaire]
sullen (adj.)
cloudy[Similaire]
sullen (adj.)
peevish[Classe]
boudeur (fr)[Classe]
mécontent (fr)[Classe]
qui hait le genre humain (fr)[Classe]
bourru (fr)[Classe]
porté à critiquer, à récriminer (fr)[Classe]
(weariness; boredom; ennui; tedium)[termes liés]
gnarl, growl, grumble, grunt, oink, snarl[Qui~]
ill-natured[Similaire]
sullen (adj.)
triste (fr)[Classe]
de visage, de physionomie désagréable (fr)[DomaineDescription]
morne (pour le regard) (fr)[DomainJugement]
sullen (adj.)
casual; insouciant; nonchalant[Classe]
lent (fr)[ClasseParExt.]
qualificatif du pouls (fr)[DomaineDescription]
slow[Similaire]
Wikipedia
| Look up sullen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. |
Sullen may refer to:
| This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the same title. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. |
sensagent's content
Webmaster Solution
Alexandria
A windows (pop-into) of information (full-content of Sensagent) triggered by double-clicking any word on your webpage. Give contextual explanation and translation from your sites !
SensagentBox
With a SensagentBox, visitors to your site can access reliable information on over 5 million pages provided by Sensagent.com. Choose the design that fits your site.
Business solution
Improve your site content
Add new content to your site from Sensagent by XML.
Crawl products or adds
Get XML access to reach the best products.
Index images and define metadata
Get XML access to fix the meaning of your metadata.
Please, email us to describe your idea.
Lettris
Lettris is a curious tetris-clone game where all the bricks have the same square shape but different content. Each square carries a letter. To make squares disappear and save space for other squares you have to assemble English words (left, right, up, down) from the falling squares.
boggle
Boggle gives you 3 minutes to find as many words (3 letters or more) as you can in a grid of 16 letters. You can also try the grid of 16 letters. Letters must be adjacent and longer words score better. See if you can get into the grid Hall of Fame !
English dictionary
Main references
Most English definitions are provided by WordNet .
English thesaurus is mainly derived from The Integral Dictionary (TID).
English Encyclopedia is licensed by Wikipedia (GNU).
Copyrights
The wordgames anagrams, crossword, Lettris and Boggle are provided by Memodata.
The web service Alexandria is granted from Memodata for the Ebay search.
The SensagentBox are offered by sensAgent.
Translation
Change the target language to find translations.
Tips: browse the semantic fields (see From ideas to words) in two languages to learn more.
computed in 0.047s