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 ]

  2. darkened by clouds; a heavy sky

    [ Syn: heavy , lowering , threatening ]

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