morose
mo·rose (mə rōs′)
adjective
- ill-tempered; gloomy, sullen, etc.
- characterized by gloom
Etymology: L morosus, peevish, fretful, fastidious < mos (gen. moris), manner: see mood
morose
modif.
Gloomy
depressed, dolorous, melancholy; see sad 1, troubled 1.Ill-humored
sullen, severe, glum, sour, splenetic, acrimonious, ill-natured, gruff, perversive, ill-tempered, sulky, gloomy, crusty, grouchy, surly, saturnine, churlish, mumpish, cantankerous, crabbed, cross, snappish, frowning, cross-grained, harsh; see also irritable, sullen.
Used with adjective complement
- become: Then shortly after James ran away to sea without his parent's leave, So John Rouat became morose, and sadly did grieve.
- look: Yet here they are toiling away on behalf of the poor Steve Richards: Why does Sir Menzies look morose?
- feel: Now whenever I start feeling morose, I revive by recalling that scene.
Modifying Another Word
- somewhat: To outsiders Scotties appear somewhat morose and serious but to their family and friends they are affectionate and cheerful.
- rather: Last night I finally got around to uploading the January updates, and noticed that I'd sounded rather morose and irritable.
- so: The home fans celebrated as if they'd won: we looked so morose you'd think we'd lost.
- not: I think we were really quite dark but in a Joy Division sort of way - still quite uplifting dark, not morose.
Modifies a noun
His temper, naturally morose, has become licentiously peevish.Crossed in his Cabinet, he insults the House of Lords and plagues the most eminent of his colleagues with the crabbed malice of a maundering witch.
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