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Bad-tempered or sulky

Having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature

Having a forbidding appearance

Annoyed or irritated and quick to take offence at petty things

Feeling, deserving of, or characterized by, severe unhappiness or sadness

(of a person) Reserved or uncommunicative in speech

Lacking energy or alertness

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Adjective

Bad-tempered or sulky

uncommunicative

ill-humoured^UK

down in the mouth

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“After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him, he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.”

Adjective

Having a somber or dismal atmosphere or nature

down in the dumps

down in the mouth

in the doldrums

unfavourable^UK

given to looking on the black side

disadvantageous

uncommunicative

ill-humoured^UK

looking on the black side

having the blahs

having blue devils

singing the blues

discombobulated

bound and determined

deep in thought

poverty-stricken

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“He tried his best to cheer the sullen mood of the room with his song.”

Adjective

Having a forbidding appearance

uncommunicative

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Adjective

Annoyed or irritated and quick to take offence at petty things

like a bear with a sore head

ill-humoured^UK

on a short fuse

confrontational

as cross as two sticks

hot under the collar

not best pleased

having got out of bed the wrong side

having got out of bed on the wrong side

with a long face

uncommunicative

easily offended

in high dudgeon

huffy irascible

with a chip on your shoulder

fed up to the teeth

fed up to the back teeth

foaming at the mouth

bent out of shape

uncomplimentary

with chip on shoulder

down in the mouth

having a fit of the sulks

perversely irritable

spoiling for a fight

ready for a fight

ill-disciplined

easily frightened

easily agitated

socially impaired

undisciplinable

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Adjective

Feeling, deserving of, or characterized by, severe unhappiness or sadness

down in the mouth

down in the dumps

in the doldrums

sick as a parrot

as sick as a parrot

singing the blues

heavy with grief

discombobulated

overcome with sorrow

down-in-the-mouth

racked with suffering

racked with pain

sorry for oneself

prostrate with grief

demoralizing^US

demoralising^UK

unable to be comforted

unable to be consoled

beside oneself with grief

heart-wrenching

conscience-stricken

ill-humoured^UK

sorry for yourself

with a long face

bundle of nerves

discountenanced

at end of one's rope

at the end of your tether

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Adjective

(of a person) Reserved or uncommunicative in speech

uncommunicative

mum^UK

mom^US

undemonstrative

uncompanionable

at a loss for words

self-restrained

incommunicative

non-communicative

self-controlled

unable to get a word out

bereft of speech

not forthcoming

unable to speak

socially inhibited

unconversational

zipped one's lips

have tight chops

could hear a pin drop

self-sufficient

zipping one's lips

buttoning one's lip

in the background

playing your cards close to your chest

cool as cucumber

knocked for six

keeping people at arm's length

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Adjective

Lacking energy or alertness

lacking in energy

dead from the neck up

slow on the uptake

good-for-nothing

undemonstrative

lacking vitality

not the full shilling

as thick as two short planks

procrastinating

slow as molasses

in the doldrums

having spring fever

soft in the head

uncompassionate

desensitized^US

along for the ride

desensitised^UK

dead to the world

uncomprehending

run-of-the-mill

could care less

don't give a damn

couldn't care less

two-dimensional

thick as two short planks

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