Definitions for sullen

sullen sul·len

Spelling: [suhl-uh n]
IPA: /ˈsʌl ən/

Sullen is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 61 anagrams from letters in sullen (ellnsu).

Definitions for sullen

adjective

  1. showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
  2. persistently and silently ill-humored; morose.
  3. indicative of gloomy ill humor.
  4. gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound.
  5. sluggish, as a stream.
  6. Obsolete. malignant, as planets or influences.

Origin of sullen

1565-75; earlier solein, Middle English

Examples for sullen

But the sullen boy only muttered that she was wise a little too late.

When the candidate was sullen and grumpy—which was often—he could read his mood and adjust the bubble accordingly.

Following Kathy's death, Enos would continue to play Kathy's sullen twin, Jodean, in the fourth season of Big Love.

Are you mistress of the petulant, the peevish, and the sullen tone?

After the first outburst a sullen anger took possession of the race-goers.

Strung out on a punishing regimen of diet pills, the once genial young man becomes a sullen, self-pitying wreck.

Again there was the obvious double meaning in his sullen tone.

Spring is a time of new beginnings, but in the years that followed, I became inward and sullen as those memories took me under.

Kristen Stewart was cast as Marylou at 17, before she played fair-skinned and often sullen Bella Swan in The Twilight series.

"Pray do not be foolish, Proserpina," said he, in rather a sullen tone.

Word Value for sullen
Scrable

6

Words with friends

10

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