a. | 1. | Lonely; solitary; desolate. |
2. | Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. | |
3. | Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. | |
4. | Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. | |
5. | Obstinate; intractable. | |
6. | Heavy; dull; sluggish. | |
n. | 1. | One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. |
2. | Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; | |
v. t. | 1. | To make sullen or sluggish. |
Adj. | 1. | sullen - 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" |
2. | sullen - darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" |