Definition of sullen Sullen

/sʌˈlʌn/ - [sulun] - sul•len

We found 19 definitions of sullen from 6 different sources.

What does sullen mean?

Adjective
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"
		dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour
		ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition
sullen - darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
		heavy, lowering, threatening
		cloudy (of liquids) clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters"

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sullen (a.)
Lonely; solitary; desolate.
sullen (a.)
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
sullen (a.)
Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
sullen (a.)
Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
sullen (a.)
Obstinate; intractable.
sullen (a.)
Heavy; dull; sluggish.
sullen (n.)
One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
sullen (n.)
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
sullen (v. t.)
To make sullen or sluggish.

sullen
sul′en, adj. gloomily angry and silent: malignant, baleful: dark: dull.—adv. Sull′enly.—n. Sull′enness.—n.pl. Sull′ens, sullen fits. [O. Fr. solain—L. solus, alone.]

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sullen in sign language