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Definition: SULKS |
SULKSNoun plural1. The condition of being sulky; a sulky mood or humor; as, to be in the sulks. |
Date "SULKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1808. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dejection | Melancholy as a gib cat; oppressed with melancholy, a prey to melancholy; downcast, downhearted; down in the mouth, down in one;s luck; heavy-hearted; in the dumps, down in the dumps, in the suds, in the sulks, in the doldrums; in doleful dumps, in bad humor; sullen; mumpish, dumpish, mopish, moping; moody, glum; sulky; (discontented); out of sorts, out of humor, out of heart, out of spirits; ill at ease, low spirited, in low spirits, a cup too low; weary; discouraged, disheartened; desponding; chapfallen, chopfallen, jaw fallen, crest fallen. |
Discontent | In high dudgeon, in a fume, in the sulks, in the dumps, in bad humor; glum, sulky; sour as a crab; soured, sore; out of humor, out of temper. |
Resentment | Scowl; sulks; a. |
Sullenness | Ill temper, bad temper, ill humor, bad humor; sulks, dudgeon, mumps, dumps, doldrums, fit of the sulks, bouderie, black looks, scowl; grouch; huff; (resentment). |
Grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks; Noun: out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: SULKS |
| English words defined with "SULKS": Mulligrubs ♦ Sulker. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "SULKS": Gauntgrim. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "SULKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 76.00% of the time. "SULKS" is used about 25 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 76% | 19 | 80,337 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 20% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (proper) | 4% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 25 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "SULKS": be in the sulks. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "SULKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сърдене, цупене (black dog, pet, pout, tiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "" (Displease, Displeased, Displeasing, Pique, sulk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Finnish | jurottaa (be in the sulks, sulk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | boude. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | schmollt (pouts). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκυθρωπότησ (crossness, glumness, sullenness, surliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | duzzog (have the pouts, have the sulks, pout, sulk, to be in the pouts, to pout, to sulk, to tiff). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulkssay bufnealã (moping). (various references) surat etme (making face, mug, sulk), somurtkanlık (grumpiness, grumps, morosity, sulk, sulkiness, sullenness, surliness, vinegar), küsme (being angry with, being offended, huff, miff, sulk, vexation). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "SULKS": outsulks. (additional references) | |
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"SULKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dulks, sculks, sousliks, sukas, sulcis, sulkk, suls, sults, szlk, ulks, zulk. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-l-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: sulk. | |
-3 letters: us. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-l-s-s-u" | |
+1 letter: sculks, skulks, skulls, suslik. | |
+2 letters: salukis, suckles, sulkers, sulkies, susliks. | |
+3 letters: burlesks, kistfuls, leukoses, leukosis, luckless, mollusks, outsulks, pusslike, sackfuls, sacksful, sculkers, skellums, skinfuls, skulkers, spelunks, subskill, sucklers, suckless, sulkiest, tuskless. | |
+4 letters: blesbucks, bulkiness, kilogauss, larkspurs, luckiness, lutefisks, numskulls, outslicks, shelducks, skullcaps, souvlakis, stickfuls, subblocks, subclerks, subskills, sucklings, sulkiness, sunblocks. | |
+5 letters: basketfuls, basketsful, houseleeks, klutziness, maulsticks, multitasks, muskmelons, numbskulls, pluckiness, souvlakias, sparkplugs, spelunkers, superslick, unlikeness, unshackles. | |
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