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100 Best Synonyms for “Sullen”

September 11, 2026

100 Best Synonyms for

No. Item Definition
1. affronted feeling insulted or offended
2. aggrieved feeling unfairly treated
3. aloof emotionally distant and cool
4. bearish surly and ill-tempered
5. bitter angry and resentful
6. black-browed looking darkly angry
7. black-looking appearing angry and gloomy
8. black-tempered darkly bad-tempered
9. blue sad or downhearted
10. brooding deeply moody and withdrawn
11. broody moody and withdrawn
12. cheerless lacking cheer or warmth
13. chilly cool and unfriendly
14. churlish rude, surly, and unfriendly
15. closemouthed reluctant to speak openly
16. cold emotionally distant or unfriendly
17. crabby irritable and ill-tempered
18. cross bad-tempered and irritable
19. crusty gruff and easily annoyed
20. dark gloomy in mood or look
21. discontented not satisfied; resentful
22. disgruntled annoyed and dissatisfied
23. displeased showing dissatisfaction or annoyance
24. dour stern, gloomy, and severe
25. down feeling low or gloomy
26. downcast low in spirits
27. downhearted feeling discouraged and sad
28. expressionless showing no facial emotion
29. forbidding unfriendly and hard to approach
30. frosty cold and unfriendly
31. frowning showing displeasure facially
32. funereal grimly mournful in tone
33. gloomy dark in mood or manner
34. glowering looking angry and gloomy
35. glum quietly unhappy or gloomy
36. grave serious and solemn
37. grim stern and joyless
38. grouchy bad-tempered and complaining
39. gruff rough and unfriendly in manner
40. grumpy easily annoyed and gloomy
41. hostile unfriendly and antagonistic
42. huffy easily offended and sulky
43. humorless lacking warmth or cheer
44. icy cold and unresponsive
45. ill-humored in a bad mood
46. ill-tempered bad-tempered and irritable
47. impassive showing little emotion
48. in a huff offended and sulking
49. in a mood noticeably irritable or gloomy
50. injured feeling wronged or offended
51. irritable easily annoyed or angered
52. joyless without happiness or cheer
53. long-faced looking unhappy and gloomy
54. low-spirited feeling sad or gloomy
55. lowering darkly threatening or gloomy
56. malcontent discontented and complaining
57. melancholy sadly thoughtful or gloomy
58. miserable very unhappy and gloomy
59. moody given to gloomy moods
60. mopey gloomy and listless
61. mopish listlessly gloomy or sulky
62. mopy quietly miserable or sulky
63. morbid gloomily fixated or dark
64. morose gloomy and bad-tempered
65. mumping sulking or muttering discontentedly
66. offended hurt and resentful
67. offish distant and unfriendly
68. ornery bad-tempered and stubborn
69. out of sorts slightly irritable or gloomy
70. overcast gloomy in mood or expression
71. peevish easily irritated and complaining
72. petulant childishly sulky or bad-tempered
73. piqued slightly offended or resentful
74. piquish somewhat touchy or sulky
75. pouting showing displeasure silently
76. pouty showing displeasure by pouting
77. prickly easily irritated and defensive
78. remote distant in manner or feeling
79. resentful showing bitterness or offense
80. reserved restrained and emotionally distant
81. reticent reserved and not revealing much
82. saturnine gloomy and unfriendly
83. scowling wearing an angry frown
84. silent not speaking; quietly displeased
85. snarling angrily hostile in expression
86. somber darkly serious or gloomy
87. sour bad-tempered and unfriendly
88. stern serious and severe
89. sulky showing silent resentment
90. surly bad-tempered and unfriendly
91. taciturn habitually quiet and reserved
92. testy easily annoyed or touchy
93. touchy easily upset or offended
94. uncheery not cheerful; gloomy
95. uncommunicative not willing to talk
96. unfriendly not kind or approachable
97. unhappy not happy; sad
98. unsmiling not smiling; grim
99. waspish sharp and irritable
100. withdrawn emotionally distant and quiet
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