Sulk

Quick meaning: Sulk is a verb meaning (intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.

Meaning

(intransitive) To express ill humor or offence by remaining sullenly silent or withdrawn.

More Meanings

1. A state of sulking.
2. (in the plural, preceded by definite article) A fit of sulking; a sulking mood.
3. A person who sulks
4. A furrow.

Example Sentences

Don't be such a sulk, Leo!

Leo has been in a sulk all morning.

You crossed her last wish in death and yet you sulk with me because I don’t whinge like some hired mute from Lalouette’s.

Mr. Riach, who had been to the college, spoke to me like a friend when he was not sulking, and told me many curious things, […]

Word Forms

• sulks
• sulking
• sulked

Synonyms for sulk

Depending on context, synonyms include mope, brood, pout, grizzle, stew, sulkiness.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include sulkiness, pout, stew, grizzle, brood, mope.

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