All sulk synonyms
sulk
S s verb sulk
- look daggers — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- mull over — to study or ruminate; ponder.
- brood — A brood is a group of baby birds that were born at the same time to the same mother.
- idled — not working or active; unemployed; doing nothing: idle workers.
- mope — to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- grouch — to be sulky or morose; show discontent; complain, especially in an irritable way.
- eat one's heart out — Anatomy. a hollow, pumplike organ of blood circulation, composed mainly of rhythmically contractile smooth muscle, located in the chest between the lungs and slightly to the left and consisting of four chambers: a right atrium that receives blood returning from the body via the superior and inferior vena cavae, a right ventricle that pumps the blood through the pulmonary artery to the lungs for oxygenation, a left atrium that receives the oxygenated blood via the pulmonary veins and passes it through the mitral valve, and a left ventricle that pumps the oxygenated blood, via the aorta, throughout the body.
- gloom — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- lose heart — to become despondent or disillusioned (over something)
- glower — to look or stare with sullen dislike, discontent, or anger.
- grump — a person given to constant complaining.
- frown — to contract the brow, as in displeasure or deep thought; scowl.
- glooming — total or partial darkness; dimness.
- do a slow burn — If someone does a slow burn, their angry feelings grow slowly but steadily.
noun sulk
- muteness — silent; refraining from speech or utterance.
- inarticulateness — lacking the ability to express oneself, especially in clear and effective speech: an inarticulate public speaker.
- laconism — laconic brevity.
- mood — Grammar. a set of categories for which the verb is inflected in many languages, and that is typically used to indicate the syntactic relation of the clause in which the verb occurs to other clauses in the sentence, or the attitude of the speaker toward what he or she is saying, as certainty or uncertainty, wish or command, emphasis or hesitancy. a set of syntactic devices in some languages that is similar to this set in function or meaning, involving the use of auxiliary words, as can, may, might. any of the categories of these sets: the Latin indicative, imperative, and subjunctive moods.
- noiselessness — accompanied by or making little or no noise; silent; quiet: a noiseless step; a noiseless typewriter.
- huff — a mood of sulking anger; a fit of resentment: Just because you disagree, don't walk off in a huff.
- iron curtain — (sometimes initial capital letters) a barrier to understanding and the exchange of information and ideas created by ideological, political, and military hostility of one country toward another, especially such a barrier between the Soviet Union and its allies and other countries.
- wordlessness — speechless, silent, or mute.
- quietness — making no noise or sound, especially no disturbing sound: quiet neighbors.
- dead air — the loss or suspension of the video or audio signal during a television or radio transmission.