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sulky
noun
1 sulky
A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse.
Roget 272:
vehicle,
conveyance,
carriage,
caravan,
van;
common carrier;
wagon,
waggon†,
wain,
dray,
cart,
lorry.
truck,
tram;
cariole,
carriole†;
limber,
tumbrel,
pontoon;
barrow;
wheel barrow,
hand barrow;
perambulator;
Bath chair,
wheel chair,
sedan chair;
chaise;
palankeen†,
palanquin;
litter,
brancard†,
crate,
hurdle,
stretcher,
ambulance;
black Maria;
conestoga wagon,
conestoga wain;
jinrikisha,
ricksha,
brett†,
dearborn [U.S.],
dump cart,
hack,
hackery†,
jigger,
kittereen†,
mailstate†,
manomotor†,
rig,
rockaway†,
prairie schooner [U.S.],
shay,
sloven,
team,
tonga†,
wheel;
hobbyhorse,
go-cart;
cycle;
bicycle,
bike,
two-wheeler;
tricycle,
velocipede,
quadricycle†.
equipage,
turn-out;
coach,
chariot,
phaeton,
break,
mail phaeton,
wagonette,
drag,
curricle†,
tilbury†,
whisky,
landau,
barouche,
victoria,
brougham,
clarence†,
calash,
caleche [Fr.],
britzka†,
araba†,
kibitka†;
berlin;
sulky,
desobligeant [Fr.],
sociable,
vis-a-vis,
dormeuse [Fr.];
jaunting car,
outside car;
dandi†;
doolie†,
dooly†;
munchil†,
palki†;
roller skates,
skate;
runabout;
ski;
tonjon†;
vettura†.
post chaise,
diligence,
stage;
stage coach,
mail coach,
hackney coach,
glass coach;
stage wagon,
car,
omnibus,
fly,
cabriolet†,
cab,
hansom,
shofle†,
four-wheeler,
growler,
droshki†,
drosky†.
dogcart,
trap,
whitechapel,
buggy,
four-in-hand,
unicorn,
random,
tandem;
shandredhan†,
char-a-bancs [Fr.].
motor car,
automobile,
limousine,
car,
auto,
jalopy,
clunker,
lemon,
flivver,
coupe,
sedan,
two-door sedan,
four-door sedan,
luxury sedan;
wheels [Coll.],
sports car,
roadster,
gran turismo [It],
jeep,
four-wheel drive vehicle,
electric car,
steamer;
golf cart,
electric wagon;
taxicab,
cab,
taxicoach†,
checker cab,
yellow cab;
station wagon,
family car;
motorcycle,
motor bike,
side car;
van,
minivan,
bus,
minibus,
microbus;
truck,
wagon,
pick-up wagon,
pick-up,
tractor-trailer,
road train,
articulated vehicle;
racing car,
racer,
hot rod,
stock car,
souped-up car.
bob,
bobsled,
bobsleigh†;
cutter;
double ripper,
double runner [U.S.];
jumper,
sled,
sledge,
sleigh,
toboggan.
train;
accommodation train,
passenger train,
express trail,
special train,
corridor train,
parliamentary train,
luggage train,
freight train,
goods train;
1st class train,
2nd class train,
3rd class train,
1st class carriage,
2nd class carriage,
3rd class carriage,
1st class compartment,
2nd class compartment,
3rd class compartment;
rolling stock;
horse box,
cattle truck;
baggage car,
express car,
freight car,
parlor car,
dining car,
Pullman car,
sleeping car,
sleeper,
dome car;
surface car,
tram car,
trolley car;
box car,
box wagon;
horse car [U.S.];
bullet train,
shinkansen [Jap.],
cannonball,
the Wabash cannonball,
lightning express;
luggage van;
mail,
mail car,
mail van.
shovel,
spool,
spatula,
ladle,
hod,
hoe;
spade,
spaddle†,
loy†;
spud;
pitchfork;
post hole digger.
[powered construction vehicles]
tractor,
steamshovel,
backhoe,
fork lift,
earth mover,
dump truck,
bulldozer,
grader,
caterpillar,
trench digger,
steamroller;
pile driver;
crane,
wrecking crane.
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adjective
1 sulky
Sullen or moody.
synonym: huffish.
Roget 901a:
sullen,
sulky;
ill-tempered,
ill-humored,
ill-affected,
ill-disposed;
grouty [U.S.];
in an ill temper,
in a bad temper,
in a shocking temper,
in an ill humor,
in a bad humor,
in a shocking humor;
out of temper,
out of humor;
knaggy†,
torvous†,
crusty,
crabbed;
sour,
sour as a crab;
surly
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
moody;
spleenish†,
spleenly†;
splenetic,
cankered.
cross,
crossgrained†;
perverse,
wayward,
humorsome†;
restiff†,
restive;
cantankerous,
intractable,
exceptious†,
sinistrous†,
deaf to reason,
unaccommodating,
rusty,
froward;
cussed [U.S.].
dogged
etc.
(stubborn)
606.
grumpy,
glum,
grim,
grum†,
morose,
frumpish;
in the sulks
etc.
n.;
out of sorts;
scowling,
glowering,
growling;
grouchy.
peevish
etc.
(irascible)
901.
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Roget 901:
irascible;
bad-tempered,
ill-tempered;
irritable,
susceptible;
excitable
etc.
825;
thin-skinned
etc.
(sensitive)
822;
fretful,
fidgety;
on the fret.
hasty,
overhasty,
quick,
warm,
hot,
testy,
touchy,
techy†,
tetchy;
like touchwood,
like tinder;
huffy,
pettish,
petulant;
waspish,
snappish,
peppery,
fiery,
passionate,
choleric,
shrewish,
sudden and quick in quarrel"
[As You Like It].
querulous,
captious,
moodish†;
quarrelsome,
contentious,
disputatious;
pugnacious
etc.
(bellicose)
720;
cantankerous,
exceptious†;
restiff
etc.
(perverse)
901.1†;
churlish
etc.
(discourteous)
895.
cross,
cross as crabs,
cross as two sticks,
cross as a cat,
cross as a dog,
cross as the tongs;
fractious,
peevish,
acari=atre†.
in a bad temper;
sulky
etc.
901.1;
angry
etc.
900.
resentful,
resentive†;
vindictive
etc.
919.
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Roget 900:
angry,
wrath,
irate;
ireful,
wrathful;
cross
etc.
(irascible)
901;
Achillean†;
sulky,
etc.
901.1;
bitter,
virulent;
acrimonious
etc.
(discourteous)
etc.
895;
violent
etc.
173.
warm,
burning;
boiling,
boiling over;
fuming,
raging;
foaming,
foaming at the mouth;
convulsed with rage.
offended
etc.
v.;
waxy,
acharne;
wrought,
worked up;
indignant,
hurt,
sore;
set against.
fierce,
wild,
rageful†,
furious,
mad with rage,
fiery,
infuriate,
rabid,
savage;
relentless
etc.
919.
flushed with anger,
flushed with rage;
in a huff,
in a stew,
in a fume,
in a pucker,
in a passion,
in a rage,
in a fury,
in a taking,
in a way;
on one's high ropes,
up in arms;
in high dudgeon.
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Roget 606:
obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened;
inflexible
etc.
(hard)
323;
balky;
immovable,
unshakable,
not to be moved;
inert
etc.
172;
unchangeable
etc.
150;
inexorable
etc.
(determined)
604;
mulish,
obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed.
dogged;
sullen,
sulky;
unmoved,
uninfluenced unaffected.
willful,
self-willed,
perverse;
resty†,
restive,
restiff†;
pervicacious†,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly;
heady,
headstrong;
entete [Fr.];
contumacious;
crossgrained†.
arbitrary,
dogmatic,
positive,
bigoted;
prejudiced
etc.
481;
creed-bound;
prepossessed,
infatuated;
stiff-backed,
stiff necked,
stiff hearted;
hard-mouthed,
hidebound;
unyielding;
impervious,
impracticable,
inpersuasible†;
unpersuadable;
intractable,
untractable†;
incorrigible,
deaf to advice,
impervious to reason;
crotchety
etc.
608.
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Roget 832:
discontented;
dissatisfied
etc.
v.;
unsatisfied,
ungratified;
dissident;
dissentient
etc.
489;
malcontent,
malcontented,
exigent,
exacting,
hypercritical.
repining
etc.
v.;
regretful
etc.
833;
down in the mouth
etc.
(dejected)
837.
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.
disappointing
etc.
v.;
unsatisfactory.
frustrated
(failure)
732.
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2 sulky
Moving slowly.
synonym: sluggish.
Polish: powolny, wolny
3 sulky
Depressingly dark.
synonyms: gloomful, glooming, gloomy.
Roget 837:
cheerless,
joyless,
spiritless;
uncheerful,
uncheery†;
unlively†;
unhappy
etc.
828;
melancholy,
dismal,
somber,
dark,
gloomy,
triste [Fr.],
clouded,
murky,
lowering,
frowning,
lugubrious,
funereal,
mournful,
lamentable,
dreadful.
dreary,
flat;
dull,
dull as a beetle,
dull as ditchwater†;
depressing
etc.
v..
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
etc.
(discontented)
832;
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
etc.
841;
discouraged,
disheartened;
desponding;
chapfallen†,
chopfallen†,
jaw fallen,
crest fallen.
sad,
pensive,
penseroso [It],
tristful†;
dolesome†,
doleful;
woebegone;
lacrymose,
lachrymose,
in tears,
melancholic,
hypped†,
hypochondriacal,
bilious,
jaundiced,
atrabilious†,
saturnine,
splenetic;
lackadaisical.
serious,
sedate,
staid,
stayed;
grave as a judge,
grave as an undertaker,
grave as a mustard pot;
sober,
sober as a judge,
solemn,
demure;
grim;
grim-faced,
grim-visaged;
rueful,
wan,
long-faced.
disconsolate;
unconsolable,
inconsolable;
forlorn,
comfortless,
desolate,
desole [Fr.],
sick at heart;
soul sick,
heart sick;
au desespoir [Fr.];
in despair
etc.
859;
lost.
overcome;
broken down,
borne down,
bowed down;
heartstricken
etc.
(mental suffering)
828†;
cut up,
dashed,
sunk;
unnerved,
unmanned;
down fallen,
downtrodden;
broken-hearted;
careworn.
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