SULK

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sulk mean? 

• SULK (noun)
  The noun SULK has 1 sense:

1. a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal

  Familiarity information: SULK used as a noun is very rare.

• SULK (verb)
  The verb SULK has 1 sense:

1. be in a huff and display one's displeasure

  Familiarity information: SULK used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

sulk; sulkiness

Context example:

stayed home in a sulk

Hypernyms ("sulk" is a kind of...):

humor; humour; mood; temper (a characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling)

Derivation:

sulk (be in a huff and display one's displeasure)

sulky (sullen or moody)

• SULK (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sulk    ... he / she / it sulks   
Past simple: sulked   
Past participle: sulked   
-ing form: sulking   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Be in a huff and display one's displeasure

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

brood; pout; sulk

Context example:

She is pouting because she didn't get what she wanted

"Sulk" entails doing...:

resent (feel bitter or indignant about)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "sulk"):

brood; grizzle; stew (be in a huff; be silent or sullen)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

sulk (a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal)

 Context examples 

His whole life appears to be spent in an alternation between savage fits of passion and gloomy intervals of sulking.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I believe the silly fellows must have thought they would break their shins over treasure as soon as they were landed, for they all came out of their sulks in a moment and gave a cheer that started the echo in a faraway hill and sent the birds once more flying and squalling round the anchorage.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)