sulk as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
sulk
noun
1 sulk
A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal:
— Stayed home in a sulk.
synonym: sulkiness.
Polish: foch
verb
1 sulk
Be in a huff and display one's displeasure.
synonyms: brood, pout.
Roget 837:
be dejected
etc.
adj.;
grieve;
mourn
etc.
(lament)
839;
take on,
give way,
lose heart,
despond,
droop,
sink.
lower,
look downcast,
frown,
pout;
hang down the head;
pull a long face,
make a long face;
laugh on the wrong side of the mouth;
grin a ghastly smile;
look blue,
look like a drowned man;
lay to heart,
take to heart.
mope,
brood over;
fret;
sulk;
pine,
pine away;
yearn;
repine
etc.
(regret)
833;
despair
etc.
859.
refrain from laughter,
keep one's countenance;
be grave,
look grave
etc.
adj.;
repress a smile.
depress;
discourage,
dishearten;
dispirit;
damp,
dull,
deject,
lower,
sink,
dash,
knock down,
unman,
prostrate,
break one's heart;
frown upon;
cast a gloom,
cast a shade on;
sadden;
damp one's hopes,
dash one's hopes,
wither one's hopes;
weigh on the mind,
lie heavy on the mind,
prey on the mind,
weigh on the spirits,
lie heavy on the spirits,
prey on the spirits;
damp the spirits,
depress the spirits.
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Roget 895:
be rude
etc.
adj.;
insult
etc.
929;
treat with discourtesy;
take a name in vain;
make bold with,
make free with;
take a liberty;
stare out of countenance,
ogle,
point at,
put to the blush.
cut;
turn one's back upon,
turn on one's heel;
give the cold shoulder;
keep at a distance,
keep at arm's length;
look cool upon,
look coldly upon,
look black upon;
show the door to,
send away with a flea in the ear.
lose one's temper
etc.
(resentment)
900;
sulk
etc.
901.1;
frown,
scowl,
glower,
pout;
snap,
snarl,
growl.
render rude
etc.
adj.;
brutalize,
brutify†.
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Roget 901a:
be sullen
etc.
adj.;
sulk;
frown,
scowl,
lower,
glower,
gloam†,
pout,
have a hangdog look,
glout†.
sulks
noun
Roget 900:
resentment,
displeasure,
animosity,
anger,
wrath,
indignation;
exasperation,
bitter resentment,
wrathful indignation.
pique,
umbrage,
huff,
miff,
soreness,
dudgeon,
acerbity,
virulence,
bitterness,
acrimony,
asperity,
spleen,
gall;
heart-burning,
heart-swelling;
rankling.
ill humor,
bad humor,
ill temper,
bad temper;
irascibility
etc.
901;
ill blood
etc.
(hate)
898;
revenge
etc.
919.
excitement,
irritation;
warmth,
bile,
choler,
ire,
fume,
pucker,
dander,
ferment,
ebullition;
towering passion,
acharnement [Fr.],
angry mood,
taking,
pet,
tiff,
passion,
fit,
tantrums.
burst,
explosion,
paroxysm,
storm,
rage,
fury,
desperation;
violence
etc.
173;
fire and fury;
vials of wrath;
gnashing of teeth,
hot blood,
high words.
scowl
etc.
895;
sulks
etc.
901.1.
[Cause of umbrage]
affront,
provocation,
offense;
indignity
etc.
(insult)
929;
grudge,
crow to pluck,
bone to pick,
sore subject,
casus belli [Lat.];
ill turn,
outrage.
Furies,
Eumenides.
buffet,
slap in the face,
box on the ear,
rap on the knuckles.
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Roget 901a:
sullenness
etc.
adj.;
morosity†,
spleen;
churlishness
etc.
(discourtesy)
895;
irascibility
etc.
901.
moodiness
etc.
adj.;
perversity;
obstinacy
etc.
606;
torvity†,
spinosity†;
crabbedness
etc.
adj..
ill temper,
bad temper,
ill humor,
bad humor;
sulks,
dudgeon,
mumps†,
dumps,
doldrums,
fit of the sulks,
bouderie [Fr.],
black looks,
scowl;
grouch;
huff
etc.
(resentment)
900.
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Moby thesaurus: antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, blahs, blue devils, blues, cursoriness, disagreement, disinclination, dismals, disobedience, disrelish, dissent, distaste, dods, doldrums, dolefuls, dorts, dumps, foot-dragging, fractiousness, frumps, grudging consent, grudgingness, grumps, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, megrims, mopes, mulligrubs, mumps, mutinousness, nolition, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, pouts, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, resistance, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sullenness, sullens, unenthusiasm, unwillingness ... show more.
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