Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
- adjective obsolete Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Sullen ,gloomy ; showing abrooding ill humour
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing a brooding ill humor
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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Some one of them giggled, but the remainder regarded her in morose and intense silence.
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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.
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Part of me being all morose is that I am essentially still on bed rest, week two.
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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.
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Some one of them giggled, but the remainder regarded her in morose and intense silence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Durk of the Farlain was known as a morose, solitary man.
Prolagus commented on the word morose
Look at this morose motherfucker right here. Looks like somebody shit in his cereal.
(Movie: Chasing Amy)
March 28, 2008