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Definition: Moroseness |
MorosenessNoun1. A gloomy ill-tempered feeling. 2. A sullen moody resentful disposition. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "moroseness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1726. (references) |
Synonyms: MorosenessSynonyms: glumness (n), sourness (n), sulkiness (n), sullenness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Discourtesy | Churlishness; Adjective: spinosity, perversity; moroseness; (sullenness) a. sternness; Adjective: austerity; moodishness, captiousness; cynicism; tartness; Adjective: acrimony, acerbity, virulence, asperity. |
Misanthropy | Noun: misanthropy, incivism; egotism; (selfishness); moroseness; a; cynicism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Moroseness |
| English words defined with "moroseness": ill temper ♦ Morosity ♦ Unamiability. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This he did naturally, as a duty, and even with a sort of moroseness on his part. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | That minister had always been my secret enemy, though he outwardly caressed me more than was usual to the moroseness of his nature. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Moroseness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Moroseness" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "moroseness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | verdrießlichkeit (crabbedness, crossness, fretfulness, glumness, grumpiness, irksomeness, peevishness, sourness, sullenness, surliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκυθρωπότητα (crossness, glumness, sullenness, surliness), δυστροπία (biliousness, crabbedness, crustiness, grouchiness, orneriness, peevishness, perversity, pettishness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, surliness, testiness, waspishness, waywardness), δυσθυμία (blues, crossness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | mogorvaság (crossness, gruffness, severity, sombreness, sulk, sulkiness, sullenness, sullens, surliness, tartness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | uggia (boredom, crabbedness, ennui, fretfulness, grumpiness, nuisance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | groamid (blues, cheerlessness, dejection, disagreeableness, gloom, gloominess, glumness, grimness, ill temper, joylessness, moodiness, moping, sombreness, sternness, sullenness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | orosenessmay ursuzenie, supãrare (affliction, anger, annoyance, bitterness, burden, care, chafe, cloud, cross, damage, Dander, fury, grief, harm, irritation, mood, mumps, pain, peevishness, pet, pettishness, pique, rage, Ruth, sadness, sorrow, spite, spunk, suffering, sulk, trouble, vexation), îmbufnare (gruffness, sulk). (various references) suratsızlık (grouchiness, grumpiness, grumps, sourness, vinegar). (various references) tính rầu rĩ (morosity), tính khinh khỉnh (morosity, offishness, priggishness, toploftiness), tính bu"n rầu (morosity), tính ủ ê (morosity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "moroseness": morosenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Moroseness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: morhogenesis. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "moroseness" (pronounced 'Mo*rose"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-s" | |
-2 letters: someones, soreness. | |
-3 letters: moreens, mossers, noosers, osmoses, senores, sensors, sermons, someone, sooners, soroses. | |
-4 letters: eroses, menses, mesnes, mesons, messes, moreen, morons, morose, mosser, mosses, nesses, nooser, nooses, osmose, romeos, rooses, semens, senors, senses, sensor, sermon, sneers, snores, sooner. | |
-5 letters: enorm, ernes, erose, erses, esses, mense, meres, mesne, meson, monos, moons, moors, moose, mores, morns. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-m-n-o-o-r-s-s-s" | |
+1 letter: roominesses. | |
+2 letters: enormousness, morosenesses. | |
+3 letters: amorousnesses, worrisomeness. | |
+4 letters: decompressions, enormousnesses, humorousnesses, stonemasonries, timorousnesses. | |
+5 letters: amorphousnesses, ceremoniousness, clamorousnesses, glamorousnesses, meritoriousness, monstrousnesses, nonrandomnesses, promotivenesses, troublesomeness, worrisomenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4D 6F 72 6F 73 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-- --- .-. --- ... . -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001101 01101111 01110010 01101111 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)M o r o s e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004D 006F 0072 006F 0073 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)47818481857180718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Fiction | 5. Usage Frequency 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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