Sullen
- v. t. To make sullen or sluggish.
- a. Lonely; solitary; desolate.
- a. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
- a. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
- a. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
- a. Obstinate; intractable.
- a. Heavy; dull; sluggish.
- n. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
- n. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. <
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.