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English
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
Adjective
morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)
- Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- Synonyms: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody
1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island: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.
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Translations
sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
- Armenian: մռայլ (hy) (mṙayl), խոժոռ (hy) (xožoṙ)
- Bulgarian: мрачен (bg) (mračen), навъсен (bg) (navǎsen)
- Chinese:
- Hokkien: 鬱悶／郁闷 (ut-būn)
- Mandarin: 鬱悶／郁闷 (zh) (yùmèn)
- Czech: mrzutý (cs), rozmrzelý (cs), zasmušilý, protivný (cs), rozladěný (cs), nerudný, nabručený, nevrlý
- Danish: melankolsk, sørgmodig, mismodig
- Dutch: nors (nl), mismoedig (nl)
- Finnish: yrmeä (fi), näreä, äreä (fi), nyreä
- French: sombre (fr), morose (fr)
- German: verdrießlich (de), missmutig (de), moros (de)
- Greek: σκυθρωπός (el) (skythropós)
- Hungarian: zord (hu)
- Irish: púiceach
- Korean: 시무룩하다 (ko) (simurukhada)
- Latin: tristis, maestus (la)
- Maori: haumāruru
- Polish: ponury (pl) m, posępny (pl) m
- Portuguese: taciturno (pt)
- Romanian: morocănos (ro), moros, ursuz (ro)
- Russian: угрю́мый (ru) (ugrjúmyj), мра́чный (ru) (mráčnyj)
- Scottish Gaelic: gruamach
- Spanish: malhumorado (es)
- Turkish: kederli (tr), bunlu (tr), hüzünlü (tr)
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Further reading
- “morose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “morose”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “morose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin mōrōsus (“peevish, wayward”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
morose (plural moroses)
- sullen, gloomy, morose
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Further reading
Italian
Adjective
morose
- feminine plural of moroso
Latin
Pronunciation
Adjective
mōrōse
- vocative masculine singular of mōrōsus
References
- “morose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “morose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- morose in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.