sullen: implies a silent ill humor and refusal to be sociable or cooperative: remained ~ throughout the party.


glum: suggests a silent dispiritedness: the whole team was ~ following the defeat.


morose: adds to glum an element of bitterness: became ~ after the death of his wife.


surly: implies sullenness, gruffness, and churlishness of speech or manner: a ~ young man. (churlish=rude粗鲁无礼)


sulky: suggests childish resentment expressed in peevish sullenness: a period of ~ behavior followed every argument.


crabbed: applies to a forbidding, ill-natured harshness of manner: his ~ exterior is only a pose.


saturnine: describes a heavy, forbidding, taciturn gloom, or suggests a bitter, sardonic manner: a ~ wit. (taciturn冷漠无语, sardonic挖苦)


dour: suggests a superficially severe, obstinate and grim bitterness: a disposition to match the landscape, ~ and unfriendly.


gloomy: implies a depression in mood making for sullenness, dourness or glumness: bad news that put everyone in a ~ mood.



sullen: 闷气，不愿交流或合作, glum: 因为失望而沉默, morose: 增加了苦涩的意味, surly: 闷气甚至粗鲁, sulky: 孩子般生闷气，crabbed: 让人生畏的粗糙举止(crab螃蟹)，saturnine: 阴郁冷默或挖苦，dour: 外表的严厉顽固和苦涩，gloomy: 形容令人压抑的情绪.


记忆方法:1) GooGle SSSS CMD 谷歌(google)四海(4s)发号施令(command)==>让人不快。


  2) 不快的意思是情绪令人生畏不合意mean showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood.