Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or quality of being morose; sourness of temper; sullenness.
Wiktionary
- n. Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Sourness of temper; sullenness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
- n. a sullen moody resentful disposition
Etymologies
- morose + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Regular meals keep the blood sugar level at a normal high, and prevents the terrible let down feeling that can result in moroseness, negativism, and sometimes even anger.”
“Their moroseness was a prelude to what was to follow.”
“I don't recall him expressing "moroseness" over the 4,000+ dead Americans, 20, 000+ maimed Americans, and 600, 000 thousand dead Iraqis in the war for which he relentlessly propagandized.”
“Too long had he cultivated reticence, aloofness, and moroseness.”
“Long since, as one feature of his developing moroseness, he had ceased from barking.”
“His moroseness changed to a deep-seated melancholy.”
“Despite the moroseness of the music, the people who made it could be a fun bunch.”
“It is not beyond possibility that Wenger's side will be eliminated at the Stadio Friuli next Wednesday, but the moroseness being expressed wilfully ignores the impact of the away goal that Arsenal should be capable of scoring in Italy.”
The Guardian: Amid the gloom, much to cheer in Arsenal's scrambled win over Udinese | Kevin McCarra
“I am confident that his sleep was stupefied and dreamless, and that he awoke next day merely to heaviness and moroseness, and that if he lives to-day he does not remember that night, so passing was it as an incident.”
“Baltimore, his moroseness when sea and wind do not favour, his savagery to the men, his snarl and his sneer.”
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