sad, gloomy, irritable, bitter
Search Dictionary
Morose Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(a.)
Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
(a.)
Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutLascivious; brooding over evil thoughts.
morose
\mo*rose"\ (?), 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." watts.
2. lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [obs.]
Gloomy.
Costog = a. sluggish; morose
Dreng = a. surly, morose
Hwstr = a froward; morose
(adj.) moody, despondent He was very morose over the death of his pet. After the team lost the fans were morose
Adjective
1. 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"
(synonym) dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen
(similar) ill-natured
Morose Definition from Social Science Dictionaries & Glossaries
If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world, as far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong.
To see others morose, portends unpleasant occupations and unpleasant companions.
Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted, or "What's in a dream": a scientific and practical exposition; By Gustavus Hindman, 1910. For the open domain e-text see: Guttenberg ProjectTo see others morose, portends unpleasant occupations and unpleasant companions.
Morose Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Melancholia (from Greek μελαγχολία - melancholia, "sadness", literally black bile), also lugubriousness, from the Latin lugere, to mourn; moroseness, from the Latin morosus, self-willed, fastidious habit; wistfulness, from old English wist: intent, or saturnine, (see Saturn), in contemporary usage, is a mood disorder of non-specific depression, characterized by low levels of both enthusiasm and eagerness for activity.
| See more at Wikipedia.org... |
