Morose

Quick meaning: Morose is an adjective meaning Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

Meaning

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

Example Sentences

If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.

My skin is cold / Transfusion with somebody / Morose and old / Drop into fruitless dying / It was tempting and bared / The whoring angel rising / Now burning prayers / My silent time of losing / My foes, they can't destroy my body / Colliding slow, like life itself

Word Forms

• more morose
• moroser
• morosest

Synonyms for morose

Depending on context, synonyms include melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include glum, sullen, saturnine, moody, dour, ill-natured.

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