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• sullen — sul|len [ sʌlən ] adjective 1. ) showing that you are in an unhappy mood, and do not want to talk a ) used about someone s expression or attitude: a sullen look 2. ) LITERARY if the sky or weather is sullen, it is dark and unpleasant ╾ sul|len|ly …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

• sullen — UK [ˈsʌlən] / US adjective 1) a) showing that you are in an unhappy mood, and do not want to talk b) used about someone s expression or attitude a sullen look 2) literary if the sky or weather is sullen, it is dark and unpleasant Derived words:… …   English dictionary

• sullen — sullen, *glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, dour, gloomy can mean governed by or showing, especially in one s aspect, a forbidding or disagreeable mood or disposition. One is sullen who is, often by disposition, gloomy, silent, and… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

• look — I n. glance expression 1) to get, have, take a look 2) to dart, shoot; steal a look 3) to give smb. a look 4) a blank, distant, faraway, vacant look (she had a faraway look in her eyes) 5) an anxious, worried; baleful; close, hard; come hither,… …   Combinatory dictionary

• sullen — sul|len [ˈsʌlən] adj [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Anglo French solein single, solitary, sullen , from Latin solus alone ] 1.) angry and silent, especially because you feel life has been unfair to you ▪ Bill sat in sullen… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• sullen — adjective 1 silently showing anger or bad temper: a look of sullen resentment 2 literary sky or weather that is sullen is dark and unpleasant; gloomy (3) sullenly adverb sullenness noun (U) …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• dirty look — /dɜti ˈlʊk/ (say dertee look) noun Colloquial an angry or sullen expression: she gave him a dirty look …  

• glum — [[t]glʌm[/t]] adj. glum•mer, glum•mest sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected • Etymology: 1425–75; late ME; var. of gloom glum′ly, adv. glum′ness, n. syn: glum, morose, sullen describe a gloomy, unsociable attitude. glum suggests a depressed,… …   From formal English to slang

• low|er — low|er1 «LOH uhr», verb, adjective, adverb. –v.t. 1. to let down or haul down: »We lower the flat at night. 2. to make lower: »to lower the water in a canal, to lower the volume of the radio, Figurative. to lower the price of a car, to lower the… …   Useful english dictionary

• gloom — c.1300 as a verb, to look sullen or displeased, perhaps from Scandinavian (Cf. Norw. dialectal glome to stare somberly ). Not considered to be related to O.E. glom twilight, but perhaps to M.L.G. glum turbid, Du. gluren to leer. The noun is 1590s …   Etymology dictionary

• glower — [ glaʊə] verb have an angry or sullen look on one s face; scowl. noun an angry or sullen look. Derivatives glowering adjective gloweringly adverb Origin C15: perh. a Scots var. of dialect glore, or from obs. glow to stare , both possibly of Scand …   English new terms dictionary