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  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*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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  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\, 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.
  
     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.
  
                  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.

  Sullen \Sul"len\, v. t.
     To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.]
  
           Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. --Feltham.

  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]

  sullen
     Middle Dutch alt.
     (l dum suelen)
     Middle Dutch vb.
     1 (lb dum auxiliary) must, to have to
     2 (lb dum auxiliary negated) may, be allowed to
     3 (lb dum auxiliary) will, shall, be going to (gloss: future tense)
     4 (lb dum auxiliary in the past tense) to be about to (gloss:
  inchoative)
     5 (lb dum modal auxiliary) (non-gloss definition: indicates a
  possible or hypothetical situation)
     6 (lb dum modal auxiliary) (non-gloss definition: indicates
  information garnered from a third party that may or may not be reliable)
     Middle English vb.
     (alt form enm sellen)

  sullen
     a.
     Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
     n.
     1 (lb en obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
     2 (lb en in plural) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

  sullen
     Middle Dutch alt.
     (l dum suelen)
     Middle Dutch vb.
     1 (lb dum auxiliary) must, to have to
     2 (lb dum auxiliary negated) may, be allowed to
     3 (lb dum auxiliary) will, shall, be going to (gloss: future tense)
     4 (lb dum auxiliary in the past tense) to be about to (gloss:
  inchoative)
     5 (lb dum modal auxiliary) (non-gloss definition: indicates a
  possible or hypothetical situation)
     6 (lb dum modal auxiliary) (non-gloss definition: indicates
  information garnered from a third party that may or may not be reliable)
     Middle English vb.
     (alt form enm sellen)

  sullen
     Middle Dutch alt.
     (l dum suelen)
     Middle Dutch vb.
     1 (lb dum auxiliary) must, to have to
     2 (lb dum auxiliary negated) may, be allowed to
     3 (lb dum auxiliary) will, shall, be going to (gloss: future tense)
     4 (lb dum auxiliary in the past tense) to be about to (gloss:
  inchoative)
     5 (lb dum modal auxiliary) (non-gloss definition: indicates a
  possible or hypothetical situation)
     6 (lb dum modal auxiliary) (non-gloss definition: indicates
  information garnered from a third party that may or may not be reliable)
     Middle English vb.
     (alt form enm sellen)

  sullen
     Englanti a.
     synkkä, juro

  sullen
     Engelska a.
     vresig, butter, surmulen

  Sullen /sˈʌlən/
  متجهّم

  sullen //ˈsʌlən// 
  1. зловещ
  dismal
  2. мрачен, навъсен
  having a brooding ill temper

  sullen /sˈʌlən/ 
  podrážděný

  sullen /sˈʌlən/ 
  mrzutý

  sullen /sˈʌlən/
  verstimmt, verdrießlich, missmutig, miesepetrig, schmollend, pikiert [geh.] , eingeschnappt [ugs.] , sauertöpfisch  [Dt.]  [ugs.]
     Synonyms: surly, sulky, morose, pouty
  

  sullen /sˈʌlən/ 
  düster , finster 

  sullen /sˈʌlən/
  
  βλοσυρός, σκυθρωπός, μοβόρικος

  sullen //ˈsʌlən// 
  1. synkeä
  dismal
  2. juro, nyreä, ynseä, yrmeä
  having a brooding ill temper

  sullen /sˈʌlən/ 
  1. रूठा हुआ
        "All my attempts to ammuse the children were met with sullen scowls."

  sullen /sˈʌlən/
  natmuren, potišten, sumoran, zagasitim

  sullen /sˈʌlən/
  1. mogorva
  2. barátságtalan
  3. lomha
  4. dacos
  5. mord
  6. komor
  7. morózus
  8. morc
  9. morcos
  10. bús
  11. baljós
  12. sivár
  13. konok
  14. nehézkes
  15. sértôdött

  sullen /sʌlən/
  aalwaardig, aalwarig, gemelijk, verdrietig

  sullen //ˈsʌlən// 
  muggen, trist, utilfreds
  dismal

  sullen /ˈsʌlən/ 
    ponury, posępny

  sullen //ˈsʌlən// 
  trumpen, surmulen
  having a brooding ill temper

  sullen /sˈʌlən/
  1. somurtkan, asık yüzlü, suratlı
  2. ters, huysuz, melankolik, yüzü gülmez
  3. kasvetli
  4. için için kaynayan. sullenly  somurtarak, asık yüzle. sullenness  somurtkanlık, asık yüzlülük
  5. kasvet.

  
/ˈsəɫən/

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "sullen":
     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, choleric, churlish, close,
     contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, cross,
     cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, cursory, cynical, dark, dejected,
     depressed, depressing, differing, difficult, disagreeing,
     disinclined, dismal, disobedient, dissociable, dogged, dogmatic,
     dour, dreary, dumpish, dyspeptic, fanatic, forced, fractious,
     fretful, froward, frowning, funereal, gloomy, glowering, glum,
     grim, grum, grumpy, hardheaded, headstrong, hostile, ill-humored,
     ill-natured, ill-tempered, incompatible, indisposed, indocile,
     insociable, intolerant, involuntary, irascible, long-faced,
     lowering, lugubrious, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean,
     melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mulish,
     mumpish, mutinous, nongregarious, obstinate, opinionated, opposed,
     ornery, out of humor, out of sorts, overzealous, peevish,
     perfunctory, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pessimistic,
     petulant, pigheaded, pouting, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant,
     restive, runty, saturnine, scowling, self-contained,
     self-sufficient, self-willed, set, snug, socially incompatible,
     sour, splenetic, stiff-necked, strong-willed, strongheaded,
     stubborn, stuffy, sulking, sulky, surly, temperamental, tenacious,
     tenebrose, tenebrous, ugly, unclubbable, uncommunicative,
     uncompanionable, uncongenial, unconsenting, uncooperative,
     unfriendly, ungenial, unregenerate, unsociable, unsocial,
     unwilling, wayward, willful, wrongheaded
  
  

  a. 愠怒的,沉沉不乐的,阴沉的;

     a. 愠怒的,沉沉不乐的,阴沉的