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SULKY
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Irregular inflected forms: sulkier , sulkiest
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("sulky" is a kind of...):
horse-drawn vehicle (a wheeled vehicle drawn by one or more horses)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Depressingly dark
Example:
'gloomful' is archaic
Synonyms:
gloomful; glooming; gloomy; sulky
Classified under:
Similar:
dark (devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Moving slowly
Example:
a sluggish stream
Synonyms:
sluggish; sulky
Classified under:
Similar:
slow (not moving quickly; taking a comparatively long time)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Sullen or moody
Synonyms:
huffish; sulky
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Derivation:
sulk (a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal)
sulkiness (a sullen moody resentful disposition)
sulkiness (a feeling of sulky resentment)
sulkiness (a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal)
