What is another word for sullenness?

Pronunciation: [sˈʌlənnəs] (IPA)

When someone is feeling sullen, they're being uncommunicative and moody. They may also be sulking, brooding, or acting distant. Other synonyms for sullenness include melancholy, glumness, moroseness, and despondency. These emotions can be triggered by a variety of factors, such as a bad day, a fight with a loved one, or just general dissatisfaction with life. Regardless of the cause, it's important to recognize when someone is feeling sullen and try to offer comfort or support. Sometimes, all it takes is a listening ear or a small act of kindness to turn someone's day around and lift their mood.

What are the hypernyms for Sullenness?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

What are the opposite words for sullenness?

Sullenness is a feeling of gloominess, irritability, and unpleasantness. Antonyms for sullenness are the opposite emotions such as cheerfulness, brightness, happiness, and radiance. Cheerfulness is a feeling of joy and contentment that brings a great sense of satisfaction. Brightness stands for the quality of being bright or clearness and a state of being illuminated or emanating light. Happiness is a state of mind that is characterized by positive emotions such as joy, satisfaction, and pleasure. Radiance reflects the quality of emanating or reflecting light, joy, and warmth. By using these antonyms, we can remove the negative and unpleasant emotions that we often experience and replace them with positive and cheerful ones.

Usage examples for Sullenness

For what sailor entering this icy and tempestuous tract of waters but knows that here he must expect to find Nature in her most violent moods, crueller and more unreckonable than a mad woman, who one moment looks with a silent sinister sullenness upon you, and the next is shrieking with devilish laughter as she makes as if to spring upon you?
"The Frozen Pirate"
W. Clark Russell
Yet her silence had not been sullenness.
"Brand Blotters"
William MacLeod Raine
"You have withdrawn yourself in your sullenness to your own room.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes

Famous quotes with Sullenness

  • In those vernal seasons of the year, when the air is calm and pleasant, it were an injury and sullenness against Nature not to go out, and see her riches, and partake in her rejoicing with heaven and earth.
    John Milton

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