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List of meaning for sullen

bad tempered and gloomy

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

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"

heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening(adj)

darkened by clouds

"a heavy sky"

causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

sullen skies that matched our mood on the day of the funeral

given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability

sullen and bored at his in-laws' house, he couldn't wait for the holidays to end

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