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sullen 音標拼音: [s'ʌlən] a. 慍怒的,沉沉不樂的,陰沉的 慍怒的,沈沈不樂的,陰沈的 sullen adj 1: 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: { dark}, { dour}, { glowering}, { glum}, { moody}, { morose}, { saturnine}, { sour}, { sullen}] 2: darkened by clouds; " a heavy sky" [ synonym: { heavy}, { lowering}, { sullen}, { threatening}] 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). [ 1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] Solemn hymns so sullen dirges change. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 3. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious. [ 1913 Webster] Such sullen planets at my birth did shine. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 4. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose. [ 1913 Webster] And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 5. Obstinate; intractable. [ 1913 Webster] Things are as sullen as we are. -- Tillotson. [ 1913 Webster] 6. Heavy; dull; sluggish. " The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course." -- Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows; The dreaded east is all the wind that blows. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] -- { Sul" len* ly}, adv. -- { Sul" len* ness}, n. [ 1913 Webster]
Sullen \ Sul" len\, n. 1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [ Obs.] -- Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster] 2. pl. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [ Obs.] -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster]
Sullen \ Sul" len\, v. t. To make sullen or sluggish. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Sullens the whole body with . . . laziness. -- Feltham. [ 1913 Webster] 154 Moby Thesaurus words for " sullen": antisocial, at odds, autistic, averse, bad- tempered, balking, balky, bashful, beetle- browed, bigoted, black, black- browed, brooding, broody, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous, case- hardened, chapfallen, choleric, churlish, close, contrary, crabbed, crabby, cranky, crestfallen, cross, cross- grained, crotchety, crusty, cursory, cynical, dark, dejected, depressed, depressing, differing, difficult, disagreeing, disinclined, dismal, disobedient, dissociable, dogged, dogmatic, dour, dreary, dumpish, dyspeptic, fanatic, forced, fractious, fretful, froward, frowning, funereal, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, grum, grumpy, hardheaded, headstrong, hostile, ill- humored, ill- natured, ill- tempered, incompatible, indisposed, indocile, insociable, intolerant, involuntary, irascible, long- faced, lowering, lugubrious, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, morose, mulish, mumpish, mutinous, nongregarious, obstinate, opinionated, opposed, ornery, out of humor, out of sorts, overzealous, peevish, perfunctory, persevering, pertinacious, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, pigheaded, pouting, recalcitrant, refractory, resistant, restive, runty, saturnine, scowling, self- contained, self- sufficient, self- willed, set, snug, socially incompatible, sour, splenetic, stiff- necked, strong- willed, strongheaded, stubborn, stuffy, sulking, sulky, surly, temperamental, tenacious, tenebrose, tenebrous, ugly, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, unconsenting, uncooperative, unfriendly, ungenial, unregenerate, unsociable, unsocial, unwilling, wayward, willful, wrongheaded
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