Entry Word: sulk

Function: noun

Meaning: a state of resentful silence or irritability <a child sitting in a sulk over a minor disagreement>

Synonyms pet, pouts, sulkiness, sullenness

Related Words blues, dumps, mopes; surliness; biliousness, crankiness, crossness, crotchetiness, grouchiness, grumpiness, irascibility, irritability, peevishness, perverseness, perversity, pettishness, petulance, testiness, waspishness; cantankerousness, disagreeableness, orneriness

Near Antonyms sociability; cheerfulness, gaiety (also gayety), gladsomeness, good-humoredness, high-spiritedness, lightheartedness, perkiness