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- Dictionarymo·rose/məˈrōs/
adjective
- 1. sullen and ill-tempered: "she was morose and silent when she got home"
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The meaning of MOROSE is having a sullen and gloomy disposition. How to use morose in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Morose.
unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile: a morose expression. Why are you so morose these days? Synonyms. dour. glum informal. moody. saturnine literary. sullen. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom.
gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. Synonyms: surly, sulky, sour, moody. Antonyms: cheerful. characterized by or expressing gloom. morose. / məˈrəʊs / adjective. ill-tempered or gloomy.
A morose person is sullen, gloomy, sad, glum, and depressed — not a happy camper. When someone is morose, they seem to have a cloud of sadness hanging over them. This word is stronger than just sad — morose implies being extremely gloomy and depressed.
Someone who is morose is miserable, bad-tempered, and not willing to talk very much to other people.
unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile: a morose expression. Why are you so morose these days? Synonyms. dour. glum informal. moody. saturnine literary. sullen. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Feeling sad and unhappy. a long face idiom. abjection. angsty. be cut up idiom. be down in the mouth idiom. be in a funk idiom.
From Latin morosus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish" ), from mos (“way, custom, habit, self-will" ): see moral. From Wiktionary. Latin mōrōsus peevish from mōs mōr- self-will, caprice, manner mē- 1 in Indo-European roots.
1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood. 2. characterized by or expressing gloom: a morose silence. [1555–65; < Latin mōrōsus fretful, peevish, willful = mōr- (s. of mōs) will, inclination + -ōsus -ose 1] mo•rose′ly, adv. mo•rose′ness, mo•ros•i•ty (məˈrɒs ɪ ti) n. syn: See glum.
Definition of morose adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
morose meaning, definition, what is morose: bad-tempered, unhappy, and silent: Learn more.
