sullen

sullen, glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, gloomy mean showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood. sullen implies a silent ill humor and a refusal to be sociable.

• • remained sullen 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 sullenness of speech or manner.

• • a typical surly teenager

sulky suggests childish resentment expressed in peevish sullenness.

• • 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 sullenness or glumness.

• • a gloomy mood ushered in by bad news