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English Dictionary: sullen	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sullen adj 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" Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" Synonym(s): heavy, lowering, sullen, threatening
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sullen \Sul"len\, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] --Wyclif (Job iii. 14). 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. --Milton. 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. [bd]The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course.[b8] --Sir W. Scott. Syn: Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish; fretful; ill-humored; petulant; gloomy; malign; intractable. Usage: {Sullen}, {Sulky}. Both sullen and sulky show themselves in the demeanor. Sullenness seems to be an habitual sulkiness, and sulkiness a temporary sullenness. The former may be an innate disposition; the latter, a disposition occasioned by recent injury. Thus we are in a sullen mood, and in a sulky fit. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. --Pope. -- {Sul"lenly}, adv. -- {Sul"lenness}, n.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sullen \Sul"len\, n. 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs.] --Piers Plowman. 2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [Obs.] --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sullen \Sul"len\, v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs.] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. --Feltham.