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Adjective

morose (comparativemore morose or moroser, superlativemost morose or morosest)

  • Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
    • ✤ Synonyms: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody; see also Thesaurus: sullen
    • ✤ 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.1
    • ✤ 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 itself2

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.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /məˈɹəʊs/
  • (General American) IPA: /məˈɹoʊs/, /mɔɹˈoʊs/
  • Audio (US): 🔊
  • Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs

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Footnotes

  1. 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island: ↩

  2. 1996, “10’s”, in The Great Southern Trendkill, performed by Pantera: ↩

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