About The Word Morose
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Morose
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What's The Definition Of Morose?
[adj] showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially 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"
Synonyms | Synonyms for Morose: dark | dour | glowering | glum | ill-natured | moody | saturnine | sour | sullen Related Terms | Find terms related to Morose: autistic | bashful | beetle-browed | black | black-browed | brooding | broody | brusque | chapfallen | choleric | close | crabbed | cranky | crestfallen | dark | dejected | dissociable | dour | dumpish | frowning | gloomy | glowering | glum | grim | gruff | grum | incompatible | insociable | irascible | irritable | long-faced | lowering | melancholy | moodish | moody | mopey | moping | mopish | mumpish | nongregarious | saturnine | scowling | self-contained | self-sufficient | sick | sickly | snug | socially incompatible | splenetic | sulky | sullen | surly | testy | ugly | unclubbable | uncommunicative | uncompanionable | uncongenial | unfriendly | ungenial | unsociable | unsocial | waspish See Also | Morose In Webster's Dictionary \Mo*rose"\, a. [L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted
to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner,
habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
``A morose and affected taciturnity.'' --I. Watts.
2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty;
churlish; surly; ill-humored.
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