Entry Word: sulky

Function: adjective

Meaning: given to or displaying a resentful silence and often irritability <our teenage daughter turns sulky if we refuse to let her borrow the car>

Synonyms glum, pouting, sullen, surly

Related Words dour, gloomy, morose; choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, quick-tempered, short-tempered, snappy, snippy, testy, waspish; brooding, moping; bearish, bilious, cantankerous, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ornery; sensitive, temperamental, thin-skinned, touchy

Near Antonyms sociable; cheerful, cheery, gladsome, good-humored, good-natured, perky