Sullenness

Definition: Sullenness

Sullenness

Noun

1. A gloomy ill-tempered feeling.

2. A sullen moody resentful disposition.

Date "sullenness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Synonyms: Sullenness

Synonyms: glumness (n), moroseness (n), sourness (n), sulkiness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Sullenness	Noun: sullenness; Adjective: morosity, spleen; churlishness; (discourtesy); irascibility.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Sullenness

English words defined with "sullenness": Glump ♦ Mulligrubs ♦ Pouting ♦ To make a lip. (references)

Specialty definitions using "sullenness": Redlaw. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	Al came slowly out of his sullenness.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Sullenness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Sullenness" is used about 6 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 (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Expression using "sullenness": sullenness a. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "sullenness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Finnish		jurous (sulkiness). (various references)

German		Verdrossenheit (moodiness, moroseness, querulousness, reluctance, unwillingness). (various references)

Greek		σκυθρωπότησ (crossness, glumness, sulks, surliness), σκυθρωπότητα (crossness, glumness, moroseness, surliness), βλοσυρότητα. (various references)

Hungarian		rosszindulatúság (malignancy, malignity), nehézkesség (crassitude, crassness, heaviness, ponderosity, ponderousness, slothfulness), mogorvaság (crossness, gruffness, moroseness, severity, sombreness, sulk, sulkiness, sullens, surliness, tartness), komorság (dimness, dismalness, gloominess, glumness, sombreness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		不景気 (business recession, cheerlessness, depression, gloom, hard times), 不機嫌 (displeasure, ill humor, pout), 不愛想 (brusqueness, unsociability). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ぶあいそう (bluntness, brusqueness, unsociability), ふき�'�" (displeasure, ill humor, pout), ふけいき (business recession, cheerlessness, depression, gloom, hard times). (various references)

Manx		pootchid (pouting), groamid (blues, cheerlessness, dejection, disagreeableness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness, ill temper, joylessness, moodiness, moping, moroseness, sombreness, sternness). (various references)

Pig Latin		ullennesssay

Russian		угрюмость (surliness). (various references)

Scottish		gruaim (gloom, melancholy, surly look). (various references)

Turkish		somurtkanlık (grumpiness, grumps, morosity, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, surliness, vinegar), sıkıcılık (aridity, inanimation, insipidity, oppressiveness, prosiness, stuffiness, thickness, vapidity, vapidness), terslik (acerbity, acrimony, awkwardness, biliousness, contrariety, contrariness, crossness, cussedness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, moods, perversity, reverse, reversion, shortness, tartness), kasvet (cheerlessness, depression, doldrums, dolefulness, dreariness, gloom, gloominess, heaviness, heebie-jeebies, murk, somberness, sombreness), asık suratlılık, aksilik (awkwardness, bile, contrariety, contrariness, contretemps, crossness, dourness, fractiousness, gruffness, hardness, hitch, ill luck, misadventure, misfortune, mishap, moodiness, moods, perversity, petulance, recalcitrance, reverse, rotten luck, setback, slip, slip up, surliness, tantrum, testiness, trouble, vexatiousness). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự bu�"n rầu (cloud, depression, sadness, sorrow), sự ủ rũ sự sưng sỉa. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "sullenness": sullennesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Sullenness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: sulleness, sullennes, sulliness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-l-l-n-n-s-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: lensless.
	-3 letters: lessens, sunless, unsells, useless.
	-4 letters: ensues, lenses, lessen, nesses, selles, senses, snells, sullen, unless, unseen, unsell.
	-5 letters: ensue, esses, lenes, lense, lunes, nenes, nulls, seels, selle, sells, sense, slues, snell, sunns.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-l-l-n-n-s-s-s-u"
	+2 letters: sullennesses.
	+3 letters: insolubleness.
	+4 letters: unlawfulnesses, unlikelinesses, unlovelinesses.
	+5 letters: insolublenesses, plentifulnesses, uncleanlinesses, unwillingnesses, unworldlinesses.
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Sullenness

Definition: Sullenness

Sullenness

Noun

Synonyms: Sullenness

Synonyms within Context: Sullenness

Sullenness

Crosswords: Sullenness

Use in Literature: Sullenness

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

Usage Frequency: Sullenness

Expression: Sullenness

Modern Translation: Sullenness

Finnish

German

Greek

Hungarian

Japanese Kanji

Japanese Katakana

Manx

Pig Latin

Russian

Scottish

Turkish

Vietnamese

Derivations & Misspellings: Sullenness

Derivations

Misspellings

Anagrams: Sullenness

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