Usually means: Displaying gloominess due to displeasure.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word sulking:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. sulking: Merriam-Webster
  2. sulking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. sulking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Sulking, sulking: Wordnik
  5. sulking: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. sulking: Wiktionary
  7. sulking: Dictionary.com
  8. sulking: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. sulking: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sulking: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sulking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (sulking)

▸ noun:  The act of one who sulks.

Similar:
pout, sulkiness, grizzle, stew, brood, sook, dort, glumps, wallowing, scowling, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, happy, joyful, jovial, jolly, merry, jocund, jocose

Types:
silent treatment, withdrawal, passive aggression, resentment, grudge holding, guilt tripping, playing victim, more...

Phrases:
fit of sulking, sulking sort, opposite of sulking, sulking fit, sulking contemplation, more...

Adjectives:
more, stylized, little, childish, great, mere, mysterious, good, preliminary, silent, angry



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Similar:
pout, sulkiness, grizzle, stew, brood, sook, dort, glumps, wallowing, scowling, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, happy, joyful, jovial, jolly, merry, jocund, jocose

Types:
silent treatment, withdrawal, passive aggression, resentment, grudge holding, guilt tripping, playing victim, more...

Phrases:
fit of sulking, sulking sort, opposite of sulking, sulking fit, sulking contemplation, more...

Adjectives:
more, stylized, little, childish, great, mere, mysterious, good, preliminary, silent, angry



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