Usually means: Gloomy and silently resentful; brooding.
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  1. sullen: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sullen: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sullen: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sullen: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sullen: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sullen, sullen: Wordnik
  7. sullen: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sullen: Wiktionary
  9. sullen: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sullen: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sullen: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sullen: Dictionary.com
  13. sullen: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. sullen: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sullen (band), Sullen: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sullen: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sullen: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sullen: Rhymezone
  19. sullen: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sullen: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sullen: Free Dictionary
  22. sullen: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sullen: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. sullen: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. sullen: Legal dictionary

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Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sull'en, sullen: Urban Dictionary

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ adjective:  Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
▸ adjective:  Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
▸ adjective:  Sluggish; slow.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
▸ adjective:  (obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
▸ noun:  (in the plural) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

Similar:
moody, ill-natured, morose, glum, dour, glowering, threatening, dark, heavy, sour, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, happy, jolly, merry, upbeat

Phrases:
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, sullen look, in a sullen mood, look sullen, opposite of sullen, more...

Adjectives:
little, same, first, low, awful, curious, long, certain, few, anguish, full

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     deep maroon,     stormy gray, more...


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Similar:
moody, ill-natured, morose, glum, dour, glowering, threatening, dark, heavy, sour, more...

Opposite:
cheerful, happy, jolly, merry, upbeat

Phrases:
A Winged Victory for the Sullen, sullen look, in a sullen mood, look sullen, opposite of sullen, sullen gloomy, when something is gloomy or sullen, was sullen, sullen mood, more...

Adjectives:
little, same, first, low, awful, curious, long, certain, few, anguish, full

Colors:
    charcoal,     slate gray,     midnight blue,     deep maroon,     stormy gray, more...



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