sulkiness

Other forms of sulkiness

plural

sulkinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sulkiness

What does sulkiness mean?

sulkiness means "a mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sulkiness?

sulkiness has 3 syllables: sul-ki-ness. The stress falls on "sul".

What is another word for sulkiness?

Close synonyms include sulk, huffishness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sulkiness a common word?

sulkiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.