Sekirov Dictionary

sullen

/ˈsʌlən/

adjective 5
noun 2
verb 1
forms 5

adjective5

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Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
- Still she entreats, and prettily entreats, / For to a pretty ear she tunes her tale; / Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets, / ‘Twixt crimson shame and anger ashy-pale — 1593
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Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
- Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change — 1591
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Sluggish; slow.
- The larger [stream] was placid, and even sullen, in its course. — 1814
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(no longer used) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
- Such sullen planets at my birth did shine, / They threaten every Fortune mixt with mine. — 1675
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(no longer used) Obstinate; intractable.
- Things are as sullen as we are, and will be what they are whatever we think of them. — 1694

noun2

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[in the plural] Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
- And let them die that age and sullens have — 1595
(no longer used) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

verb1

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(no longer used) To make sullen.
- The idle man is like the dumb jack in a virginal: while all the other dance out a winning music, this, like a member out of joint, sullens the whole body, with an ill disturbing laziness. — 1620

forms

sullened · sullening · sullens · sullener · sullenest

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