Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Fastidious; scrupulous.
- Of a sour temper; severe; sullen and austere.
- Synonyms Gloomy. Sulky, etc. (see sullen), gruff, crabbed, crusty, churlish, surly, ill-humored, ill-natured, cross-grained.
- Lingering; persistent.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
- adj. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. showing a brooding ill humor
Etymologies
- Latin mōrōsus, peevish, from mōs, mōr-, self-will, caprice, manner; see mē-1 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Quite lately -- yesterday or the day before -- his mother had spoken to him, gently but very seriously, about what she called the morose and savage fits which would bring misery upon him if he did not set himself earnestly to overcome them.”
“With perhaps the exception of Steven Spielberg's "Munich," which dovetails nicely in morose spirit and disturbing milieu, very few movies about the 1970s (that weren't actually made in the 1970s) look and feel as perfect as "Carlos" does.”
The Washington Post: TV Preview: Sundance Channel's 5 1/2-hour biopic 'Carlos'
“Part of me being all morose is that I am essentially still on bed rest, week two.”
“Instead of the lithe enthusiast with flaming eyes he saw a heavily built man with blunted features, wearing powerful horn spectacles, his expression morose, his movements ungainly.”
“Some one of them giggled, but the remainder regarded her in morose and intense silence.”
“Then Bartlett’s eyes strayed to the opposite end of the defense table where Barney Haskell was sitting, his expression morose, his hands supporting his head.”
“I mean, there's frustration on the album, obviously, and then there's a song like "Crash And Burn," which I wouldn't call morose, but it's certainly a somber song.”
“Durk of the Farlain was known as a morose, solitary man.”
The Hawk Eternal
“This morose, meaningless side of science is never openly presented to young students contemplating a lifetime in science.”
The Huffington Post: Dr. Larry Dossey: Is the Universe Merely a Statistical Accident?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘morose’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4084 more...
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municipal, whit, dissembler, berate, liberally, embellish, dissimilitude, histrionics, flamboyance, bombastic, bovine, calumny and 142 more...
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SAT Words
But only the ones that I don't already know.
abase, abash, abominate, abstruse, acclivity, accolade, accost, adroit, adulate, adulterate, adumbrate, affray and 241 more...
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I Found A Rose
List of words that contain the string of letters "rose" - from aprosexia nasalis to prosectionist.
aprosexia nasalis, prosectionist, erose, roseate, tuberose, morose, grosella, retrosexual, serose, arose, Drosera, haroset and 154 more...
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PART 2: 100 Word You Should Know To Be Able To ...
Here are 40 advanced English words which should you be able to use them in a sentence will impress even educated native speakers! Perfect if you want to impress the examiner in examinations like: I...
jubilant, knell, lithe, lurid, maverick, maxim, meticulous, modicum, morose, myriad, nadir, nominal and 28 more...
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general search words
words when I found them in the articles
benign, pantomime, deregulation, regressive, morose, staid, mercurial, temperament, ludicrous, fallacy, discord, afloat and 17 more...
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macabre
words associated with the macabre & horror.
ghastly, grisly, culeus, silly, gruesome, horrid, morbid, angelic, shocking, hideous, ghoulish, frightful and 85 more...
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Wuthering Heights
Obscure classic English words in Wuthering Heights you barely understand till you check the dictionary out.
conjecture, tenant, sinewy, peevish, pious, advent, tumult, parlour, villanous, stalwart, soliloquise, gaiters and 6 more...
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Relating to: Sad
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M words that are sad...why so many?

Prolagus Look at this morose motherfucker right here. Looks like somebody shit in his cereal.
(Movie: Chasing Amy) Mar 27, 2008