showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.

persistently and silently ill-humored; morose.

indicative of gloomy ill humor.

gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound.

sluggish, as a stream.

Obsolete . malignant, as planets or influences.

adjective

bright , cheerful , grinning , happy

adjective

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 * , lowery , atrabiliar , black , brooding , crabby , depressing , forlorn , grim , grouchy , grumpy , intractable , irascible , melancholy , mopy , serious , slow , sluggish , splenetic , unamiable