Morose \Mo*rose"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]s"), 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.
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2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
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Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty;
churlish; surly; ill-humored.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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" [syn: dark, dour, glowering,
glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen]
WordNet (r) 2.0
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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