Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor. And sullen I forsook th’ imperfect feast.

Mischievous; malignant. Such sullen planets at my birth did shine.

Obstinate; intractable. Things are as sullen as we are.

Gloomy; dark; dismal. Why are thine eyes fix’d to the sullen earth? Night with her sullen wings. No cheerful breeze this sullen region knows.

Heavy; dull; sorrowful. Be thou the trumpet of our wrath, And sullen presage of your own decay.