Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Sullenness

Nouns
  • sullenness etc. adj.
  • morosity, spleen
  • churlishness etc. (discourtesy) Discourtesy
  • irascibility etc. Irascibility. moodiness etc. adj.
  • perversity
  • obstinacy etc. Obstinacy
  • torvity, spinosity
  • crabbedness etc. adj.. ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor
  • sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, black looks, scowl
  • grouch
  • huff etc. (resentment) Resentment.
Verbs
  • be sullen etc. adj.
  • sulk
  • frown, scowl, lower, glower, gloam, pout, have a hangdog look, glout.
Adjectives
  • sullen, sulky
  • ill-tempered, ill-humored, ill-affected, ill-disposed
  • grouty [U.S.]
  • 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 etc. (discourteous) Discourtesy. moody
  • spleenish, spleenly
  • splenetic, cankered. cross, crossgrained
  • perverse, wayward, humorsome
  • restiff, restive
  • cantankerous, intractable, exceptious, sinistrous, deaf to reason, unaccommodating, rusty, froward
  • cussed [U.S.]. dogged etc. (stubborn) Obstinacy. grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish
  • in the sulks etc. n.
  • out of sorts
  • scowling, glowering, growling
  • grouchy. peevish etc. (irascible) Irascibility.