CBSE ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LITERATURE

Detailed explanation-1: -/sʌlk/ to be silent and refuse to smile or be pleasant to people because you are angry about something that they have done: He’s sulking in his room because I wouldn’t let him have any more chocolate. Compare. pout verb.

Detailed explanation-2: -idiom. : angry or upset about something and refusing to discuss it with other people : sulking. He was in a sulk.

Detailed explanation-3: -sullen, glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, gloomy mean showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood. sullen implies a silent ill humor and a refusal to be sociable. remained sullen amid the festivities. glum suggests a silent dispiritedness. a glum candidate left to ponder a stunning defeat.

Detailed explanation-4: -Someone who’s sulky is gloomy, or quietly unhappy. A sulky teenager is generally not a lot of fun at a family party. Some people tend to be sulky when they’re unhappy or disappointed-when you’re sulky, you’re not just sad, but you mope and frown and sigh.

Detailed explanation-5: -Some common synonyms of sulky are crabbed, gloomy, glum, morose, saturnine, sullen, and surly. While all these words mean “showing a forbidding or disagreeable mood, ” sulky suggests childish resentment expressed in peevish sullenness.