Sullen

a.	1.	Lonely; solitary; desolate.
	2.	Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. 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. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. - Pope.
n.	1.	One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
	2.	Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
v. t.	1.	To make sullen or sluggish. Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. - Feltham.

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" Synonyms: glowering, moody, morose, saturnine, glum, dour, sour, dark
	2.	sullen - darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" Synonyms: lowering, threatening, heavy

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