Dictionary

morose en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /məˈɹoʊs/ (General-American)
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• /məˈɹəʊs/ (Received-Pronunciation)
• /mɔɹˈoʊs/ (General-American)

Etymology

From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

Meanings

1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
   • My skin is cold / Transfusion with somebody / Morose and old / Drop into fruitless dying / It was tempting and bared / The whoring angel rising / Now burning prayers / My silent time of losing / My foes, they can't destroy my body / Colliding slow, like life itself 1996, “10's”, in The Great Southern Trendkill, performed by Pantera:
   • If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him. 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island:

Forms

Deriveds

morose delectation · unmorose

Relateds

morosity · moroseness · morosely

Synonyms

sulky · gloomy · gruff · sulky · moody · ill-humored · morose · crabby · ill-tempered · melancholy · glum · sullen · glum · moody · grouchy · grouchy · gruff

Translations (57)

da melankolsk (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · el σκυθρωπός (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · de missmutig (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · gl malhumorado (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs zasmušilý (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · la tristis (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · hy խոժոռ (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ko 시무룩하다 (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ro morocănos (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · bg мрачен (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ru угрю́мый (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ro moros (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · pl posępny (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · gd gruamach (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fi yrmeä (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · gl sombrío (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · gl tristeiro (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · sk nevrlý (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · hy մռայլ (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs nerudný (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · nl nors (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fi näreä (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · da mismodig (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · es malhumorado (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fi äreä (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ro ursuz (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · tr bunlu (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · tr hüzünlü (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fr morose (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs nevrlý (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · sk rozmrzený (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fi nyreä (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · hu zord (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · pt taciturno (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · la maestus (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs protivný (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ga púiceach (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs mrzutý (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · de verdrießlich (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs rozmrzelý (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fa عبوس (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · gl taciturno (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · fr sombre (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · ru мра́чный (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · pl ponury (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs rozladěný (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · sk mrzutý (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · de moros (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cmn 鬱悶 /郁闷 (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · bg навъсен (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · nl mismoedig (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · nan-hbl 鬱悶 /郁闷 (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · da sørgmodig (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · mi haumāruru (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · cs nabručený (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · da tvær (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour) · tr kederli (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)