sullen (adj.)
- antisocial
- autistic
- averse
- bad-tempered
- balking
- balky
- bashful
- beetle-browed
- bigoted
- black
- brooding
- broody
- bullheaded
- cantankerous
- case-hardened
- chapfallen
- choleric
- churlish
- close
- contrary
- crabbed
- crabby
- cranky
- crestfallen
- cross
- cross-grained
- crotchety
- crusty
- cursory
- cynical
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- depressing
- difficult
- disinclined
- dismal
- disobedient
- dissociable
- dogged
- dogmatic
- dour
- dreary
- dyspeptic
- fanatic
- forced
- fractious
- fretful
- froward
- frowning
- funereal
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- grim
- grumpy
- hardheaded
- headstrong
- hostile
- ill-humored
- ill-natured
- ill-tempered
- incompatible
- indisposed
- indocile
- intolerant
- involuntary
- irascible
- long-faced
- lowering
- lugubrious
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- melancholy
- moody
- morose
- mulish
- mutinous
- nongregarious
- obstinate
- opinionated
- opposed
- ornery
- overzealous
- peevish
- perfunctory
- persevering
- pertinacious
- perverse
- pessimistic
- petulant
- pigheaded
- pouting
- recalcitrant
- refractory
- resistant
- restive
- runty
- saturnine
- scowling
- self-contained
- self-sufficient
- self-willed
- set
- snug
- sour
- splenetic
- stiff-necked
- strong-willed
- stubborn
- stuffy
- sulky
- surly
- temperamental
- tenacious
- tenebrous
- ugly
- uncommunicative
- uncongenial
- uncooperative
- unfriendly
- unregenerate
- unsociable
- unsocial
- unwilling
- wayward
- willful
- wrongheaded
Where sits our sulky, sullen dame,
Gathering her brows like gathering storm,
Nursing her wrath to keep it warm.
