sullen

sullen is a 6-letter English word with 11 senses as adjective, noun, and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Lonely; solitary; desolate. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 10 · 11 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Lonely; solitary; desolate.
2. adjective. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
3. adjective. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
4. adjective. Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.
5. adjective. Obstinate; intractable.
6. adjective. Heavy; dull; sluggish.
7. noun. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
8. noun. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.
9. transitive verb. To make sullen or sluggish.
10. adjective. darkened by clouds

    "a heavy sky"

    Synonyms: heavy, lowering, threatening

11. adjective. showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bliven

    "a dark scowl"

    "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"

    Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour

Synonyms

heavy, lowering, threatening, dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in sullen:

unsell

Common word forms

sullens, sullener, sullenly, sullenest, sullenness

Words from these letters

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