sullen

adjective · noun · verbA2

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Tính từ

adjective
Comparative
sullener
Superlative
sullenest
  1. 1.

    Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

    Đồng nghĩa: sulky, morose, broody

  2. 2.

    Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

    a sullen atmosphere

    Đồng nghĩa: forlorn, melancholy, cheerless, comfortless, bleak, dark, morose, depressing, desolate, dire, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dolesome, drear, drearisome, dreary, dreich, forlorn, gayless, gray, gloomsome, gloomy, grim, joyless, lack-laughter, lugubrious, melancholy, mirthless, miserable, no joke, saturnine, solemn, somber, sombre, spiritless, sullen, sunless, uncheerful, uncheery, unhappy, unmerry, wintry, woeful, atrabiliary, atrabilious, blitheless, dispirited, blue, bummed out, chapfallen, cheerless, chopfallen, crestfallen, cut up, damp, dejected, depressed, despondent, disgruntled, disconsolate, disheartened, dismal, doleful, dolesome, down, down in the dumps, down in the mouth, downcast, downhearted, downsome, dull, elegiac, elegious, forlorn, gloomy, glum, grief-stricken, grieving, heavy-hearted, heartsore, heartsick, inconsolable, infelicitous, jawfallen, joyless, lachrymose, lamentful, low, low-spirited, lugubrious, lumpish, melancholic, melancholy, miserable, moody, mopey, morose, mournful, passionate, plaintive, Plutonian, Plutonic, querulous, ruthful, sad, saddened, saturnine, shattered, solemn, sombre, sorrowful, sorrow-ridden, sorrowsome, spiritless, sullen, threnetic, threnetical, triste, tristful, uncheerful, uncheery, unconsolable, unhappy, unlively, wistful, woe, woebegone, woeful, wretched

  3. 3.

    Sluggish; slow.

    Đồng nghĩa: ponderous, stately, crawling, slack, slow-moving, languid, languorous, draggy, creeping, dreich, gastropodous, glacial, heavy-footed, inching, inert, labored, leaden, lead-footed, lethargic, low-speed, lumbering, plodding, pokey, ponderous, slothlike, slow, slow as a snail, slow as Christmas, slow as molasses, slow as molasses in January, slowfooted, sluggish, stately, steady, subglacial, sullen, tardigrade, tedious, testudineous, torpid, turtleish, turtlesque, unspeedy

  4. 4.

    (obsolete)Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

    Đồng nghĩa: malevolent, ominous, abandoned, arrant, bad, bad apple, bad seed, baleful, scurrilous, baneful, base, black-hearted, dark, deleterious, demonic, depraved, despicable, detrimental, devilish, diabolical, evil, evil-minded, facinorous, flagitious, harmful, heinous, ill-intentioned, ill-natured, immoral, incorrigible, iniquitous, iniquous, injurious, knavish, malefic, maleficent, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, naughty, nefarious, niddering, nidering, niding, nithing, no-good, peccaminous, pernicious, reprehensible, reprobate, satanic, scathful, sinful, sinister, sordid, sullen, ungodly, unholy, vicious, vile, villainous, wicked, wrong, augurous, baleful, bodeful, boding, dire, disastrous, divine, fatal, foreboding, ill-boding, ill-fated, ill-omened, ill-starred, inauspicate, inauspicious, nefastous, omenic, ominous, brooding, portentous, presageful, presagious, prodigious, sinister, star-crossed, sullen

  5. 5.

    (obsolete)Obstinate; intractable.

    Đồng nghĩa: inflexible, persistent, adamant, ardent, grim, bent on, bloody-minded, bullheaded, certain, chronic, confirmed, determined, diehard, dogged, hard-hearted, hard-nosed, hardheaded, headstrong, immovable, incalcitrant, inflexible, irrefragable, insistent, intractable, intransigent, intrepid, inveterate, mulish, obdurate, obstinate, obstreperous, peevish, peremptory, persistent, pertinacious, pigheaded, recalcitrant, refractory, resolute, resolved, rigid, self-willed, stalwart, staunch, steadfast, steady, stubborn, stubborn as a mule, sullen, tenacious, terminal, thran, thwart, tough, truculent, unbending, uncompromising, unyielding, vehement, wilful, willful

Danh từ

noun
Plural noun:
sullens
  1. 1.

    (archaic)One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

    Đồng nghĩa: loner, shut-in, aloner, anchoret, anchorite, eremite, hermit, Miller of Dee, monk, recluse, shut-in, solitary, sullen

  2. 2.

    (in plural)(in the plural) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

    Đồng nghĩa: glumps, mope

Động từ

verb
V_es/s
sullens
V_ing/Gerund
sullening
V_ed/pp
sullened
  1. 1.

    (obsolete)To make sullen.

Từ liên quan

Đồng nghĩa

sulkymorosebroodyforlornmelancholycheerlesscomfortlessbleakdarkdepressingdesolatediredisconsolatedismaldolefuldolesomedreardrearisomedrearydreich

Trái nghĩa

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Nguồn gốc từ

From Middle English soleyn, from soleyn (alone), from Old French sole (single, sole, alone), from Latin sōlus (by oneself alone). The change in meaning from "single" to morose occurred in Middle English.

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