showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the (Atasözü)ially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
[ 's&-l&n ] (adjective.) 14th century. Middle English solain solitary, probably from Anglo-French solein, alteration of Old French soltain, from Late Latin solitaneus private, ultimately from Latin solus alone.