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sulky

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of sulky

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 of sulky

glum, mopey, pouting, pouty, sullen, surly

Words Related to sulky

dour, gloomy, morose

choleric, crabby, cranky, cross, crotchety, grouchy, grumpy, irascible, irritable, peevish, perverse, pettish, petulant, prickly, quick-tempered, raspy, ratty, short-tempered, snappish, snappy, snarky, snippety, snippy, testy, waspish

brooding, moping

bearish, bilious, cantankerous, disagreeable, dyspeptic, ill-humored, ill-natured, ill-tempered, ornery

huffy, sensitive, temperamental, tetchy, thin-skinned, touchy

Phrases Synonymous with sulky

down in the mouth

Near Antonyms of sulky

cheerful, cheery, gladsome, good-humored, good-natured, good-tempered, perky, sunny

carefree, easygoing, happy-go-lucky, relaxed

Synonym Discussion of sulky

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

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