morose

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

  1. adjective showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen

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