| Main Entry: | sullen |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brooding, upset |
Synonyms: |
bad-tempered, cheerless, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross, cynical, dismal, dour, dull, fretful, frowning, gloomy, glowering, glum, gruff, grumpy*, heavy, hostile, ill-humored, inert, irritable, malevolent, malicious, malign, mean, moody, morose, obstinate, ornery*, out of sorts, peevish, perverse, pessimistic, petulant, pouting, pouty, querulous, saturnine, silent, somber, sour, sourpussed, stubborn, sulking, sulky, surly, tenebrific, tenebrous, ugly, unsociable, uptight* |
Antonyms: |
bright, cheerful, grinning, happy |
| Main Entry: | angry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | being mad, often extremely mad |
Synonyms: |
affronted, annoyed, antagonized, bitter, chafed, choleric, convulsed, cross, displeased, enraged, exacerbated, exasperated, ferocious, fierce, fiery, fuming, furious, galled, hateful, heated, hot, huffy, ill-tempered, impassioned, incensed, indignant, inflamed, infuriated, irascible, irate, ireful, irritable, irritated, maddened, nettled, offended, outraged, piqued, provoked, raging, resentful, riled, sore, splenetic, storming, sulky, sullen, tumultous/tumultuous, turbulent, uptight, vexed, wrathful |
Antonyms: |
calm, collected, content, happy, joyful, joyous |
| Main Entry: | bitter |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hostile, nasty |
Synonyms: |
acrimonious, alienated, antagonistic, begrudging, biting, caustic, crabby, divided, embittered, estranged, fierce, freezing, hateful, intense, irreconcilable, morose, rancorous, resentful, sardonic, severe, sore, sour, stinging, sullen, virulent, vitriolic, with chip on shoulder |
Antonyms: |
agreeable, content, genial, kind, nice, pleasant, sweet |
| Main Entry: | black |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry |
Synonyms: |
enraged, fierce, furious, hostile, menacing, resentful, sour, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | cheerless |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | depressing, unhappy |
Synonyms: |
austere, black, bleak, blue, comfortless, dark, dejected, dejecting, depressed, desolate, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, dispiriting, dolorous, drab, draggy, drearisome, dreary, dull, forlorn, funereal, gloomy, grim, in the dumps, jarring, joyless, melancholy, miserable, mopey, mournful, oppressive, sad, somber, sorrowful, sullen, tenebrific, uncomfortable, wintry, woebegone, woeful |
Antonyms: |
bright, cheerful, happy, uplifting |
| Main Entry: | churlish |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | crude, boorish |
Synonyms: |
base, blunt, brusque, cantankerous*, cloddish, clodhopping, crabbed, crude, crusty, curt, cussed, discourteous, dour, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, harsh, ill-tempered, impolite, loutish, lowbred, mean, miserly, morose, oafish, ornery*, rude, rustic, snippy, sullen, surly, touchy*, ugly, uncivil, uncivilized, uncultured, unmannerly, unneighborly, unpolished, unsociable, vulgar |
Antonyms: |
gentle, nice, pleasant, polite |
| Main Entry: | cloudy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hazy; darkened |
Synonyms: |
blurred, confused, dark, dense, dim, dismal, dull, dusky, emulsified, foggy, gloomy, heavy, indefinite, indistinct, leaden, lowering, misty, mucky, muddy, murky, mushy, nebulous, nontranslucent, nontransparent, not clear, nubilous, obscure, opaque, overcast, somber, sullen, sunless, vaporous |
| Notes: | to the National Weather Service, partly cloudy (what we think of as partly sunny) is 3/8-5/8 cloud cover, mostly cloudy is 6/8-7/8 cloud cover, and cloudy is 8/8 |
Antonyms: |
clear, cloudless |
| Main Entry: | crabby/crabbed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
acid, acrid, acrimonious, awkward, bad-tempered, blunt, brusque, captious, choleric, churlish, cranky*, cross, crotchety, crusty, cynical, difficult, dour, fretful, gloomy, glum, grouchy, harsh, huffy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, irascible, irritable, misanthropic, morose, nasty-tempered, peevish, perverse, petulant, prickly, saturnine, snappish, snappy, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, tart, testy, tough, trying, unsociable |
Antonyms: |
happy |
| Main Entry: | cross |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very angry; in a bad mood |
Synonyms: |
annoyed, cantankerous, captious, caviling, choleric, churlish, crabby, cranky, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, faultfinding, fractious, fretful, grouchy, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-tempered, impatient, irascible, irritable, jumpy, out of humor, peeved, peevish, pettish, petulant, put out, querulous, quick-tempered, ratty, short, snappy, splenetic, sullen, surly, testy, tetchy, touchy, vexed, waspish |
Antonyms: |
animated, cheerful, happy, pleasant |
| Main Entry: | dark |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angry, upset |
Synonyms: |
dour, forbidding, frowning, glowering, glum, ominous, scowling, sulky, sullen, threatening |
Antonyms: |
cheerful, happy, pleased |