Mood vs. Sullen — What's the Difference?

A particular state of mind or emotion

Bad-tempered and sulky

A pervading impression of an observer

A sulky or depressed mood.

An instance or spell of sulking or angry behavior

Showing a brooding ill humor or silent resentment; morose or sulky.

Inclination; disposition

Gloomy or somber in tone, color, or portent

A property of verbs in which the speaker's attitude toward the factuality or likelihood of the action or condition expressed.

Sluggish; slow

A category or set of verb forms or inflections used to indicate such an attitude. In English, the indicative mood is used to make factual statements, the subjunctive mood to indicate doubt or unlikelihood, and the imperative mood to express a command.

Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.

(Logic) The arrangement of statement types in a syllogism.

Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

A mental or emotional state, composure.

Sluggish; slow.

Emotional character (of a work of music, literature, or other art).

(obsolete) Lonely; solitary; desolate.

A sullen, gloomy or angry mental state; a bad mood.

(obsolete) Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

A disposition to do something, a state of mind receptive or disposed to do something.

(obsolete) Obstinate; intractable.

A prevalent atmosphere, attitude, or feeling.

(obsolete) One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

(slang) A familiar, relatable feeling, experience, or thing.

Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

(grammar) A verb form that depends on how its containing clause relates to the speaker’s or writer’s wish, intent, or assertion about reality.

Lonely; solitary; desolate.

(slang) Used to express that the speaker finds something very relatable.

Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.

Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, conditional, hypothetical, obligatory, imperitive, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the imperitive mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

Gloomily angry and silent; cross; sour; affected with ill humor; morose.

Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

Obstinate; intractable.

A characteristic (habitual or relatively temporary) state of feeling;

Heavy; dull; sluggish.

The prevailing psychological state;

One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

Verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker

Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness; as, to have the sullens.

To make sullen or sluggish.

Showing a brooding ill humor;

Darkened by clouds;