English-Thai Dictionary

sullen

ADJ บึ้งตึง  บูดบึ้ง  ไม่พูดไม่จา  moody morose surly bung-tung

 

sullen

ADJ อึมครึม  มืดครึ้ม  dull glum aum-kum

 

sullen

ADJ เชื่องช้า  เฉื่อยชา  awkward slow-moving sluggish chung-cha

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SULLEN

a.[perhaps set, fixed, and allied to silent, sill, etc. ] 1. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor.
And sullen I forsook th' imperfect feast.
2. Mischievous; malignant.
Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
3. Obstinate; intractable.
Things are as sullen as we are.
4. Gloomy; dark; dismal.
Why are thine eyes fix'd to the sullen earth?
Night with her sullen wings.
No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows.
5. Heavy; dull; sorrowful.
Be thou the trumpet of our wrath,
And sullen presage of your own decay.

 

SULLENLY

adv. Gloomily; malignantly; intractably; with moroseness.

 

SULLENNESS

n.Ill nature with silence; silent moroseness; gloominess; malignity; intractableness.

 

SULLENS

n.plu. A morose temper; gloominess. [Not in use. ]

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SULLEN

Sul "len, a. Etym: [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. "The larger stream was placid, and even sullen, in its course. " Sir W. Scott.

 

Syn. -- Sulky; sour; cross; ill-natured; morose; peevish; fretful; ill- humored; petulant; gloomy; malign; intractable. -- 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 "len *ly, adv. -- Sul "len *ness, n.

 

SULLEN

SULLEN Sul "len, n.

 

1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit. [Obs. ] Piers Plowman.

 

2. pl.

 

Defn: Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens. [Obs. ] Shak.

 

SULLEN

SULLEN Sul "len, v. t.

 

Defn: To make sullen or sluggish. [Obs. ] Sullens the whole body with. .. laziness. Feltham.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sullen

sul len |ˈsələn ˈsələn | ▶adjective bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy: a sullen pout. • (of the sky ) full of dark clouds: a sullen sunless sky. ▶noun (the sullens ) archaic a sulky or depressed mood. DERIVATIVES sul len ly adverb, sul len ness noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the senses ‘solitary, averse to company, ’ and ‘unusual ’): from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol ‘sole. ’

 

Oxford Dictionary

sullen

sul ¦len |ˈsʌlən | ▶adjective bad-tempered and sulky: a sullen pout. • (of the sky ) full of dark clouds: a sullen sunless sky. ▶noun (the sullens ) archaic a sulky or depressed mood. DERIVATIVES sullenly adverb, sullenness |-ənnɪs |noun ORIGIN Middle English (in the senses ‘solitary, averse to company ’, and ‘unusual ’): from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol ‘sole ’.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sullen

sullen adjective a bunch of sullen, spoiled brats: surly, sulky, pouting, sour, morose, resentful, glum, moody, gloomy, grumpy, bad-tempered, ill-tempered; unresponsive, uncommunicative, farouche, uncivil, unfriendly. ANTONYMS cheerful.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sullen

sullen adjective a bunch of sullen, spoilt brats: surly, sulky, pouting, sour, morose, resentful, glum, moody, gloomy, joyless, frowning, glowering, grumpy, touchy, peevish, indignant, embittered; bad-tempered, ill-tempered, cross, angry, testy; unresponsive, uncommunicative, unsociable, uncivil, unmannerly, unfriendly; informal stroppy. ANTONYMS cheerful, sociable.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sullen

sul len /sʌ́lən /〖語源は 「孤独な 」〗形容詞 more ～; most ～/｟まれ ｠～er ; ～est 1 〈人が 〉むっつりとした , 不機嫌におし黙った ; すねた ; 気難しい (性格の ); 〈表情 雰囲気などが 〉不機嫌そうな ▸ They stared at me in a sullen silence .彼らはむっつりと黙って私をにらんだ 2 ｟文 ｠〈空 天候などが 〉暗い , うっとうしい , 不快な , どんよりした .3 〈色などが 〉暗くくすんだ, 〈音などが 〉低く鈍い, 〈動きなどが 〉ゆっくりで鈍い .～ly 副詞 不機嫌に, むっつりとして .～ness 名詞 U 不機嫌 .