'Morose' definitions:
Definition of 'morose'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
Definition of 'Morose'
From: GCIDE
- Morose \Mo*rose"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]s"), a. [L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
- 1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." --I. Watts. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'morose'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- autistic,
- bashful,
- beetle-browed,
- black,
- black-browed,
- brooding,
- broody,
- brusque,
- chapfallen,
- choleric,
- close,
- crabbed,
- cranky,
- crestfallen,
- dark,
- dejected,
- dissociable,
- dour,
- dumpish,
- frowning,
- gloomy,
- glowering,
- glum,
- grim,
- gruff,
- grum,
- incompatible,
- insociable,
- irascible,
- irritable,
- long-faced,
- lowering,
- melancholy,
- moodish,
- moody,
- mopey,
- moping,
- mopish,
- mumpish,
- nongregarious,
- saturnine,
- scowling,
- self-contained,
- self-sufficient,
- sick,
- sickly,
- snug,
- socially incompatible,
- splenetic,
- sulky,
- sullen,
- surly,
- testy,
- ugly,
- unclubbable,
- uncommunicative,
- uncompanionable,
- uncongenial,
- unfriendly,
- ungenial,
- unsociable,
- unsocial,
- waspish