adj., -er, -est.

1. Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.
2. Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent: sullen, gray skies.
3. Sluggish; slow: the sullen current of a canal.

[Middle English solein, from Anglo-Norman solein, alone, from sol, single, from Latin sōlus, by oneself alone.]

sullenly sul'len·ly adv.
sullenness sul'len·ness n.

adjective

1. Broodingly and sullenly unhappy: dour, gloomy, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sulky, surly. See happy/unhappy.
2. Characterized by or expressive of a foreboding somberness: dark, lowery. See warn/invite.

adj

Definition: brooding, upset
Antonyms: bright, cheerful, grinning, happy

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The adjective has 2 meanings:

Meaning #1: showing a brooding ill humor
  Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour

Meaning #2: darkened by clouds
  Synonyms: heavy, lowering, threatening

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - dyster, mørk, trist
n. - sulky; let, tohjulet hestevogn

Nederlands (Dutch)
nors, somber

Français (French)
adj. - renfrogné, maussade, morne, obstiné
n. - air/humeur maussade

Deutsch (German)
adj. - mürrisch, verdrießlich, schlecht
n. - schlechte Laune

Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - βαρύθυμος, μουτρωμένος, ζοφερός, μελαγχολικός, (για πράγμα) αργοκίνητος

Italiano (Italian)
accigliato, scontroso, sgarbato, sordo, cupo, triste

Português (Portuguese)
adj. - taciturno

Русский (Russian)
угрюмый, замкнутый, сердитый, печальный, гнетущий, зловещий, мрачный, приглушенный, строптивый (о животных)

Español (Spanish)
adj. - hosco, ceñudo, malhumorado, triste, sombrío, lúgubre, lento (río)
n. - persona hosca, malhumorada

Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - surmulen, vresig, butter, trumpen, dyster, grådaskig, mörk, dov, olustig, långsam

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
愠怒的, 阴沉的, 沉沉不乐的, 生气, 情绪消沉

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 慍怒的, 陰沈的, 沈沈不樂的
n. - 生氣, 情緒消沉

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 부루퉁한, 음침한, 완만한
n. - 샐쭉함, 부루퉁함

日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 不機嫌な, むっつりした, 陰気な

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(صفه) مقطب الجبين , نكد‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮קודר, עצוב, זועף בדומייה‬
n. - ‮דיכאון (מיושן), זעף‬

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