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Definition: sullen
sullen
adj 1: 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” [syn:
dark,
dour,
glowering,
glum,
moody,
morose,
saturnine,
sour]
2: darkened by clouds;
“a heavy sky” [syn:
heavy,
lowering,
threatening]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Sullen
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).
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2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. --Milton.
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Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. --Shak.
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3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
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Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. --Dryden.
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4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill
humor; morose.
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And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. --Prior.
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5. Obstinate; intractable.
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Things are as sullen as we are. --Tillotson.
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6. Heavy; dull; sluggish.
“The larger stream was placid, and
even sullen, in its course.” --Sir W. Scott.
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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.
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No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows;
The dreaded east is all the wind that blows.
--Pope.
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Sul"len*ly, adv. --
Sul"len*ness, n.
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Sullen
\Sul"len\, n.
1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.]
--Piers Plowman.
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2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to
have the sullens. [Obs.] --Shak.
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Sullen
\Sul"len\, v. t.
To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.]
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Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. --Feltham.
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