1. sullen - Noun
2. sullen - Adjective
3. sullen - Verb
4. sullen - Adjective Satellite
Heavy; dull; sluggish.
Lonely; solitary; desolate.
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
Obstinate; intractable.
One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
To make sullen or sluggish.
Source: Webster's dictionaryWondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it; better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen. Thomas Carlyle
Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen. Willa Cather
Oft, on a plat of rising ground, I hear the far-off curfew sound Over some wide-watered shore, Swinging low with sullen roar. John Milton
Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, - Wail, for the world's wrong! Percy Bysshe Shelley
Magnus had often thought of getting a pet, but he had never considered acquiring a sullen teenage vampire. Once Raphael was gone, he thought, he was getting a cat. And he would always throw his cat a birthday party. Cassandra Clare
When a face is sullen it remains there to be seen on its owner. Nigerian Proverb