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Meaning of sullen

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  sullen
      adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
             proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
             shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and
             unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic
             young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen
             crowd" [syn: {dark}, {dour}, {glowering}, {glum},
             {moody}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]
      2: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky" [syn: {heavy}, {lowering},
         {sullen}, {threatening}]


Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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