Английский Этимологический словарь - sullen
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Someone who is sullen is bad-tempered and does not speak much. The offenders lapsed into a sullen silence... ADJ ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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adjective Etymology: Middle English solein solitary, from Anglo-French sulein, solain, perhaps from sol, soul single, sole + -ain after Old French soltain solitary, private, from Late Latin solitaneus, ultimately from Latin solus alone Date: 14th century 1. a. gloomily or resentfully silent or repressed a ~ crowd b. suggesting a ~ state ; lowering a ~ countenance 2. dull or somber in sound or color 3. dismal, gloomy a ~ morning 4. moving sluggishly a ~ river • ~ly adverb • ~ness noun Synonyms: ~, glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, gloomy mean showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood. ~ implies a silent ill humor and a refusal to be sociable remained ~ amid the festivities. glum suggests a silent dispiritedness a glum candidate left to ponder a stunning defeat. morose adds to glum an element of bitterness or misanthropy morose job seekers who are inured to rejection. surly implies gruffness and ~ness of speech or manner a typical surly teenager. sulky suggests childish resentment expressed in peevish ~ness grew sulky after every spat. crabbed applies to a forbidding morose harshness of manner the school's notoriously crabbed headmaster. saturnine describes a heavy forbidding aspect or suggests a bitter disposition a saturnine cynic always finding fault. gloomy implies a depression in mood making for seeming ~ness or glumness a gloomy mood ushered in by bad news. ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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adj. & n. --adj. 1 morose, resentful, sulky, unforgiving, unsociable. 2 a (of a thing) slow-moving. b dismal, melancholy (a sullen sky). --n. (in pl., usu. prec. by the) archaic a sullen frame of mind; depression. Derivatives sullenly adv. sullenness n. Etymology: 16th-c. alt. of ME solein f. AF f. sol SOLE(3) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. угрюмый; замкнутый; сердитый 2. печальный, мрачный; гнетущий; зловещий 3. мрачный, неяркий (о цвете) 4. приглушенный, низкий или печальный (о звуке) 5. упрямый, строптивый (обыкн. о животных) 6. медленно текущий (о воде и т. п.) ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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adj. 1) угрюмый, замкнутый, сердитый 2) мрачный; зловещий; гнетущий 3) медленно текущий (о ручье и т.п.) ...Англо-русский словарь
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