sullen 音标拼音: [s'ʌlən]
a . 愠怒的,沉沉不乐的,阴沉的
愠怒的,沈沈不乐的,阴沈的
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 " [
synonym : {
dark }, {
dour }, {
glowering }, {
glum },
{
moody }, {
morose }, {
saturnine }, {
sour }, {
sullen }]
2 :
darkened by clouds ; "
a heavy sky " [
synonym : {
heavy }, {
lowering },
{
sullen }, {
threatening }]
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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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
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