Sullen vs Dreary - What's the difference?
sullen | dreary |
Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
* Prior
Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
* 1593 , , IV. v. 88:
Sluggish; slow.
* Sir Walter Scott
(obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.
(obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
* Dryden
(obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.
* Tillotson
(obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.
* 1593 , , II. i. 139:
(obsolete) Grievous, dire; appalling.
Drab; dark, colorless, or cheerless.
* 1818 , , Volume 1, Chapter V:
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between sullen and dreary
is that sullen is (obsolete) one who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit while dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling.As adjectives the difference between sullen and dreary
is that sullen is having a brooding ill temper; sulky while dreary is (obsolete) grievous, dire; appalling.As a noun sullen
is (obsolete) one who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.sullen
English
Adjective
(er)- And sullen I forsook the imperfect feast.
- Our solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;
- (Milton)
- The larger stream was placid, and even sullen , in its course.
- Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.
- Things are as sullen as we are.
Synonyms
* sulky, moroseAntonyms
* cheerful * content * lighthearted * pleasedNoun
(en noun)- (Piers Plowman)
- to have the sullens
- And let them die that age and sullens have;
dreary
English
Adjective
(en-adj)- It had rained for three days straight, and the dreary weather dragged the townspeople's spirits down.
- Once upon a midnight dreary , while I pondered, weak and weary...
- It was on a dreary night of November, that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.