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sullenness
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Noun sullenness has 2 senses
- sullenness(n = noun.feeling) glumness, moroseness - a gloomy ill-tempered feeling; Array is a kind of moodiness
- sullenness(n = noun.attribute) moroseness, sourness, sulkiness - a sullen moody resentful disposition; Array is a kind of ill nature
Derived form adjective sullen2
Derived form adjective sullen1
ROGET THESAURUS
sullenness
Sullenness
N sullenness, morosity, spleen, churlishness, irascibility, moodiness, perversity, obstinacy, torvity, spinosity, crabbedness, ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor, sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl, grouch, huff, sullen, sulky, ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill- disposed, grouty, in an ill temper, in a bad temper, in a shocking temper, in an ill humor, in a bad humor, in a shocking humor, out of temper, out of humor, knaggy, torvous, crusty, crabbed, sour, sour as a crab, surly, moody, spleenish, spleenly, splenetic, cankered, cross, crossgrained, perverse, wayward, humorsome, restiff, restive, cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward, cussed, dogged, grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish, in the sulks, out of sorts, scowling, glowering, growling, grouchy, peevish.
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