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sullenness

sullenness noun: the state or quality of being sullen.

Noun

sullenness (countable and uncountable, plural sullennesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being sullen.
    • “Marry come up—are you there with your bears?” muttered the dragon, with a draconic sullenness, which was in good keeping with his character, “we had as good have been Romans still, if we are to have no freedom in our pastimes!”1820, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in The Abbot. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Company, and...
    • ’Twas sunset: when the sun will part
      There comes a sullenness of heart
      To him who still would look upon
      The glory of the summer sun.1829, Edgar Allan Poe, “Tamerlane”, in Al Aaraaf, Tamerlane and Minor Poems
    Synonyms:
    surliness
  2. (countable, rare) The result or product of being sullen.

sullenness meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Assamese

sullenness in Tamil

பிணக்கு

sullenness in Urdu

آزردگی, برہمی, خفگی, اداسی

sullenness in Assamese

sullenness, displeasure
আঁৰ ãr

Synonyms of sullenness

Forms of sullenness

pluralsullennesses

Origin of sullenness

From sullen + -ness.

Questions about sullenness

What does sullenness mean?
Sullenness means the state or quality of being sullen.
What is sullenness in Tamil?
Sullenness in Tamil is பிணக்கு. See Sullenness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is sullenness?
Sullenness is a noun.
What is the plural of sullenness?
The plural of sullenness is sullennesses.

Words near sullenness in the dictionary

  1. sullener
  2. sullenest
  3. Sullenger
  4. Sullengers
  5. sullenly
  6. sullenness
  7. sullennesses
  8. sullens
  9. sulliable
  10. sulliage
  11. sulliages

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sullenness (page history and authors); sullenness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); sullenness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); আঁৰ (Assamese) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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