Morose

Definition: Morose

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".

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Date "morose" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Etymology: Morose \Mo*rose"\, adjective. [Latin expression morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, from mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: compare to the French expression morose.]. (references)

Dream Interpretation

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Synonyms: Morose

Misanthropy

Adjective: misanthropic, antisocial, unpatriotic; egotistical;(selfish); morose; a.

Sullenness

Grumpy, glum, grim, grum, morose, frumpish; in the sulks; Noun: out of sorts; scowling, glowering, growling; grouchy.

Crosswords: Morose

French (morose, splenetic).

Now whenever I start feeling morose, (In Old Mexico; performing artist: Tom Lehrer)

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Books

• Ne dites pas áa mon páere que je suis quâebâecois, il me croit canadien dans un Quâebec libre : chroniques perdues et retrouvâees d'une dâecennie morose (reference)

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He laughed no more with his childlike laugh, he had become morose, and he now received no visits

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Expression using "morose": dour glowering glum moody morose saturnine sour sullen. Additional references.

Beginning with "morose": morose-looking.

Albanian

i zymtë (black, cheerless, crepuscular, dark, depressed, dismal, dour, drab, dreary, eerie, funeral, funereal, gloomy, glum, grim, heavy, leaden, macabre, mirk, mirthless, mournful, muddy, murk, sad, sepulchral, somber, sombre, spleenful, stark, sulky, sullen, surly, tenebrous, winterly, wintry), i vrazhdë (abrupt, austere, bad tempered, boeotian, boorish, brutal, brutish, churlish, clownish, coarse, crude, discordant, dissonant, earthy, fretful, grave, gross, hard, hard-fisted, harsh, heavy-handed, ill natured, low-bred, murky, robustious, rough, rough spoken, rude, scurrilous, severe, stern, sullen, surly, truculent, uncivil, unfinished, unhandsome, unmannerly), i vrërët (murky, surly), i ngrysur (dark, dismal, farouche, gloomy, heavy, lowering, lugubrious, saturnine, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, woebegone). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كالح (gloomy, glum, grave, grim, stern, surly), ‏متجهم (gloomy, glum, grim, sulky, sullen), ‏نكد المزاج (crabbed), ‏عابس (austere, gloomy, grouchy, loiterer, stern, sulky, surly). (various references)

Bulgarian 

необщителен (antisocial, dissociable, dissocial, dry, incommunicable, incommunicative, reserved, reticent, segregative, self contained, taciturn, uncommunicative, unneighborly, unneighbourly, unsociable, unsocial, withdrawn), навъсен (beetle-browed, gloomy, glum, lowering, murky, saturnine, somber, sombre, surly), мрачен (black, bleak, cheerless, comfortless, darksome, dejected, depressing, dim, dingy, dismal, drab, drear, dumpish, dusky, forbidding, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, grisly, heavy, inhospitable, joyless, low-browed, lowering, melancholy, mirk, morbid, murk, murky, obscure, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, sunless, tenebrous, thick, tristful). (various references)

Czech

mrzoutský (cantankerous, crabbed, crotchety, crusty, querulous), nevrlý (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crusty, gruff, grumpy, ill tempered, petulant, querulous, snappy, sour, splenetic, sullen, surly), nerudný. (various references)

Dutch

aalwarig (fretful, peevish, rash, simple, straightforward, sullen), aalwaardig (fretful, peevish, rash, simple, straightforward, sullen). (various references)

Esperanto

moroza (fretful, peevish, sullen). (various references)

Faeroese

múlatrútin (dismal, fretful, peevish, sullen), í ringum skørum (fretful, peevish, sullen). (various references)

Farsi 

کج خلق (Crab, Irritable, Peevish, Petulant, Querulous, Snappish, Sullen, Techy, Tedious, Testy), وسواسی (Meticulous, Queasy, Scrupulous, Whimsical), ترشرو (Acid, Dogged, Gruff, Grumpy, Moody, Petulant, Rusty, Sulky, Sullen), عبوس (Grim, Lower, Moody, Peevish, Rusty, Stern, Sulky, Sullen). (various references)

Finnish

yrmeä (cross), nyrpeä (cross, glum, sullen, surly), juro (sulky, sullen, surly, unsociable). (various references)

French

maussade. (various references)

German

verdrießlich (boring, glum, irksome, morosely, peevish, peevishly, sour, sourly, splenetic, stodgy, sullen, surlily, tiresome), griesgrämig (curmudgeonly, grouchily, grouchy, grumpy, joyless, shirty, sour, sourly), mürrisch (cantankerous, crabby, crotchety, crusty, dour, fractious, glum, glumly, grumpy, liverish, morosely, peevish, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly, testy), grämlich (sullen, surly). (various references)

Greek 

κακοδιάθετοσ (splenetic), σκυθρωπόσ (cross, dour, glum, joyless, saturnine, sulky, sullen, surly), πικρόχολοσ (bilious, wry), δύστροποσ (bloody minded, cantankerous, captious, crabbed, cranky, cross, fretful, grouch, illtempered, peevish, pettish, recalcitrant, shrewish, splenetic, splenish, sullen, surly, testy, untoward, vixenish, waspish, wayward). (various references)

Hebrew 

קו�"ר (black, cheerless, dark, dour, dun, gaunt, gloomy, gruff, murky, saturnine, sepulchral, somber, sullen, tenebrous), ע�'ום (bleak, cheerless, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dusky, funereal, gloomy, mournful, rueful, sorrowful, sullen), עצוב (design, downhearted, fashioning, formation, forming, formulation, lugubrious, modeling, molding, sad, shaping, sorrowful, sullen, unhappy, woeful). (various references)

Hungarian

morózus (sullen, testy, to be down in the dumps), mogorva (as cross as two sticks, bearish, cheerless, crabbed, criss cross, crusty, disagreeable, disgruntled, grim, grouchy, grousing, gruff, have the sullens, ill tempered, like a bear with a sore head, pouty, saturnine, snapping, snuffy, somber, sulky, sullen, surly, testy). (various references)

Indonesian

murung (glum, lugubrious, melancholic, mopish, mopy, morbid, querulous). (various references)

Italian

malinconico (dismal, doleful, gloomy, hipped, melancholic, melancholy, pensive, sad, saturnine, somber, sombre, wistful, wistfully), tetro (dark, dismal, dreary, dusky, feral, gloomy, lugubrious, somber, sombre, sour), scontroso (grumpy, peevish, stroppy, sullen, surly), indispettito, imbronciato (pouting, sulky), cupo (abyssal, cavernously, dark, deep, dour, gloomy, hollow, obscure, raucous, sulky, sullen). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

つなぎ目 (a joint, a link, all-night Mah Jongg, aloof, altogether, at all, beyond doubt, certainly, complaining, entirely, extra-high-speed Touhoku-line shinkansen, feeling awkward, gleaming, going long way at steady pace, nitpicking, pointed, sauce for dipping tempura, slippery, smooth, sound of walking, surely, tie-together point, to pitchforward, trudgingly), み使い (angel, be impatient, bushy, conspicuously, crunch, giant flying squirrel, incomprehensible muttering, irresistibly, itch, itchy, make good use of, make the most of, munch, nausea, offended, queasy, ragged, rugged, shaggy, soy sauce, stuffy, suddenly, sullen, surge of anger, talking in sleep, to be fretful, to be in a spleen, to be in a temper, to be in ill humour, to be irritated, to be vexed, to become angry or sullen, to become serious, to blow, to feel irritated, to feel offended, to feel sick, to fret, to have the appearance of ~, to jerk off, to masturbate, to show signs of ~, to take somethingseriously, woman's desire). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つ�"つ�" (aloof, pointed), むっつり (offended, sullen), むっと (offended, sullen). (various references)

Manx

s'groamee, groamagh (bad-tempered, bearish, bleak, bleak of weather, cheerless, crestfallen, dejected, depressive, disagreeable, dour, forbidding, gloomy, glum, grim, gruff, mopish, prospects, prospects), saturnine, sombre, sorry, stern, sullen, surly). (various references)

Pig Latin

orosemay.(various references)

Portuguese

melancólico (atrabilious, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, dumpish, gaunt, gloomy, low-spirited, melancholic, melancholy, moody, mopish, mournful, mourning, pensive, sad, somber, sombre), taciturno (moody, mumpish, reticent, silent, spleenful, sullen, taciturn, uncommunicative), sombrio (abstruse, adust, bleak, bowery, cheerless, cloudy, dark, darkling, darksome, dim, dingy, dismal, doleful, dreary, dun, dusk, dusky, ebon, funereal, fuscous, gaunt, gloomily, gloomy, glum, grave, hard-headed, lowering, mirk, miserable, misty, murk, murky, obscure, opaque, overcast, sable, sad, saturnine, shadowy, somber, sombre, stygian, umbrageous), rabugento (acrimonious, atrabilious, brutal, criss-cross, crusty, currish, faultfinding, fiddle-faddle, fractious, fretful, frumpish, grouty, gruff, harsh, moody, peevish, pettish, querulous, rough, shrewish, snuffy, sour, sullen, surly, techy, testy, tetchy, unkind, unpleasant), insociável (asocial, intractable, sullen, unsociable, unsocial), aborrecido (annoyed, beastly, boring, bothersome, damnable, disgusted, drab, dreary, dull, dullish, grouchy, horrid, irksome, jaded, meddler, mumpish, outworn, pernickety, pesky, prose, provoking, soporific, stodgy, sulky, tedious, tired, tiresome, tiring, troublesome, unpleasant, vexed, vexing, wearisome, weary, worn-out, worried, worrisome). (various references)

Romanian

morocãnos (adust, crabbed, cross-grained, crusty, grouty, gruff, grumbling, grumbly, grumpish, grumpy, ill tempered, morosely, peevish, snuffy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, tetchy), ursuz (churlish, crabbed, crabby, crusty, gnarled, grumbler, grumbling, grumpy, peevish, somber, sombre, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), posac (adust, mopish, sour, sulky, sullen, sullenly, surly), îmbufnat (beetle, disgruntled, miffed, morosely, poutingly, sulky). (various references)

Russian 

угрюмый (farouche, gloomily, glum, sullen, surly), мрачный (black, bleak, cheerless, dark, darksome, dismal, dour, drear, dreary, funereal, gaunt, gloomy, glum, grave, grey, grim, heavy, lugubrious, macabre, mirk, mournful, murk, murky, obscure, saturnine, somber, sombre, sullen, tenebrous, woebegone). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zlovoljan (bad tempered, ill tempered, ill-humored, nasty, peeved, peevish, sullen), turoban (bleak, dour, drear, dreary, gloomy, overcast). (various references)

Spanish

malhumorado (bad tempered, bilious, cantankerous, crabbed, crabby, cross, disagreeable, disgruntled, fractious, glum, grouchy, grumpy, ill tempered, ill-humored, ill-humoured, low-spirited, moody, mumpish, peevish, pettish, petulant, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly), taciturno (glum, sullen, taciturn, uncommunicative), rostrituerto (grouchily), hosco (dark, gruff, sullen, surly). (various references)

Swedish

vresig (crabbed, cross, cross-grained, crotchety, crusty, disagreeable, grouchy, gruff, grumpy, ill-humored, ill-humoured, peevish, perverse, ratty, sulky, vinegary), sur (acid, crabbed, cranky, cross, crotchety, dismal, grouchy, Moody, ratty, sharp, shirty, sour, surly, wet), dyster (angry, beetle-browed, black, bleak, blue, cloudy, dark, darksome, disconsolate, dismal, doleful, dreary, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, heavy, humpy, in the doldrums, lugubrious, murky, sad, saturnine, sepulchral). (various references)

Turkish

suratsız (gnarled, grim, grouchy, po-faced, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, ugly, ungenial, vinegary), somurtkan (glum, grumpy, sour, sulky, sullen, surly, unsmiling), asık suratlı (dour, glum, lugubrious, repining, saturnine, straight-faced, sulky, surly, vinegary). (various references)

Ukrainian

відлюдний (ascetic, close, coy, lonely, obscure, offish, recluse, remote, retired, shut in, unsociable, unsocial), понурий (blue, chap-fallen, cheerless, dogged, dour, gloomy, murky, overcast, somber, sombre). (various references)

Vietnamese 

rầu rĩ (atrabiliar, atrabilious, mopish, plaintive, rueful), bu�"n rầu (black, chap-fallen, darkly, moody, mournful, rueful, sad, sadly, sorrowful, sullen, woebegone, woeful, woefully, woesome), ủ ê; khinh khỉnh. (various references)

Welsh

trwynsur (sour), sarrug (acrimonious, gruff, surly), dreng (harsh, sullen, surly). (various references)

difficile, difficilem, difficiles, difficilia, morosus. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "morose": morosely, moroseness, morosenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Morose" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Korosec, marose, merose, Modrone, mojos, Mokrice, Momote, monrose, moorse, Moorsee, Moosa, mooseg, mooset, mooshe, moosie, moraes, morasse, Morazo, Morcoast, morese, moreso, morgoth, Morisawa, morlse, morone, Moros, Morosov, morosus, Moroti, Moroz, morrish, Morsa, Morso, Morue, Moruzzi, Morysse, Mozote, mros, mucose, Murasad, muros, murose. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: romeos.

-1 letter: moors, moose, mores, morse, omers, romeo, rooms, roose.

-2 letters: eros, moor, moos, more, mors, omer, ores, rems, roes, roms, room, rose, some, sore.

-3 letters: ems, ers, moo, mor, mos, oes, oms, ore, ors, ose, rem, res, roe, rom, ser, som.

-4 letters: em, er, es, me, mo, oe, om, or, os, re, so.

+1 letter: boomers, mooters, oosperm, roomers, roomies.

+2 letters: acrosome, bedrooms, bloomers, boredoms, boresome, composer, doomster, dormouse, enormous, foremost, foursome, groomers, hormones, ionomers, legrooms, mesotron, moidores, monomers, monteros, moochers, moonrise, moorages, moorhens, mooriest, morellos, morosely, motorise, newsroom, oosperms, promotes, reblooms, regrooms, resmooth, restroom, ribosome, roomiest, saleroom, smoother, sombrero, sycomore, tearooms, tremolos, woomeras, zoosperm.

+3 letters: acrosomes, amorettos, anterooms, astrodome, bottomers, broomiest, coenamors, commoners, composers, composure, corymbose, doomsayer, doomsters, firerooms, forebooms, foredooms, foursomes, groomsmen, guestroom, headrooms, heirlooms, homeports, homerooms, homeworks, houseroom, jeroboams, karyosome, lowermost, mesomorph, mesotrons, microsome, moderatos, monoester, moonrises, motioners, motorised, motorises, motorizes, motorless, neomorphs, newsrooms, nonsmoker, oarswomen, odometers, oligomers, omnivores, orometers, osmometer, osmometry, outermost, outhomers, overcomes, oversmoke, podomeres, pressroom, prodromes, promoters, recompose, rehoboams, remotions, resmooths, restrooms, ribosomes, roomettes, roominess, roommates, salerooms, salesroom, sarcosome, shampooer, smoothers, sombreros, sophomore, stateroom, storeroom, sycomores, trombones, warerooms, whoredoms, wormholes, worrisome, zoosperms.