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sullenly

[suhl-uhn] Origin

sul·len

[suhl-uhn]
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.
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6.
Obsolete. malignant, as planets or influences.
COLLAPSE

Origin:
1565–75; earlier solein, Middle English < ?

sul·len·ly, adverb
sul·len·ness, noun
un·sul·len, adjective
un·sul·len·ly, adverb


1. See cross. 1, 2. See glum. 2. sulky, moody, sour, bad-tempered. 4. cheerless, clouded, overcast, somber, mournful, dark. 5. slow, stagnant.


1, 2. cheerful.

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sullen (ˈsʌlən)
 
adj
1.  unwilling to talk or be sociable; sulky; morose
2.  sombre; gloomy: a sullen day
3.  literary sluggish; slow: a sullen stream
4.  obsolete threatening
 
n
5.  archaic (plural) a sullen mood
 
[C16: perhaps from Anglo-French solain (unattested), ultimately related to Latin sōlus alone]
 
'sullenly
 
adv
 
'sullenness
 
n

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sullen
1570s, alteration of M.E. soleyn "unique, singular," from Anglo-Fr. *solein, formed on the pattern of O.Fr. soltain, from O.Fr. soul "single" (see sole (2)). The sense shift in M.E. from "solitary" to "morose" occurred between about 1380 and 1400.
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