sulky

1. 1.

   a light two-wheeled vehicle for one person; drawn by one horse

   Broaderhorse-drawn vehicle

Other forms of sulky

plural

sulkies·

comparative or superlative

sulkier

comparative or superlative

sulkiest

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 sulky

What does sulky mean?

sulky means "sullen or moody". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sulky?

sulky has 2 syllables: sul-ky. The stress falls on "sul".

What is another word for sulky?

Close synonyms include huffish, sluggish, glooming, gloomy, gloomful. 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 sulky a common word?

sulky is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.