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morose

adj · 2 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /məˈɹəʊs/
  • General-American: /məˈɹoʊs/
  • General-American: /mɔɹˈoʊs/
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  • rhymes with -əʊs
  • rhymes with -oʊs
  • CMU ARPABET: M ER0 OW1 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

adj

Meaning 1

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody, gloomy, ill-tempered, ill-humored, morose, sullen

Antonyms: none provided

2

adjective satellite

Meaning 2

showing a brooding ill humor- Bruce Bliven

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • a dark scowl
  • the proverbially dour New England Puritan
  • a glum, hopeless shrug
  • he sat in moody silence
  • a morose and unsociable manner
  • a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
  • a sour temper
  • a sullen crowd

Meaning relationships

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

Antonyms: none provided

History

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.

Across languages

Translations

53 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Armenian: մռայլ (mṙayl) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Armenian: խոժոռ (xožoṙ) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Bulgarian: мрачен (mračen) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Bulgarian: навъсен (navǎsen) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Chinese: 鬱悶 /郁闷 (ut-būn) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鬱悶 /郁闷 (yùmèn) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: mrzutý — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: rozmrzelý — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: zasmušilý — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: protivný — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: rozladěný — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: nerudný — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: nabručený — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Czech: nevrlý — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Danish: melankolsk — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Danish: sørgmodig — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Danish: mismodig — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Danish: tvær — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Dutch: nors — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Dutch: mismoedig — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Finnish: yrmeä — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Finnish: näreä — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Finnish: äreä — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Finnish: nyreä — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • French: sombre — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • French: morose — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • German: verdrießlich — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • German: missmutig — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • German: moros — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Greek: σκυθρωπός (skythropós) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Hungarian: zord — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Irish: púiceach — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Korean: 시무룩하다 (simurukhada) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Latin: tristis — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Latin: maestus — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Māori: haumāruru — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Persian: عبوس (abus) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Polish: ponury — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Polish: posępny — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Portuguese: taciturno — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Romanian: morocănos — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Romanian: moros — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Romanian: ursuz — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Russian: угрю́мый (ugrjúmyj) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Russian: мра́чный (mráčnyj) — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Scottish Gaelic: gruamach — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Slovak: rozmrzený — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Slovak: nevrlý — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Slovak: mrzutý — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Spanish: malhumorado — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Turkish: kederli — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Turkish: bunlu — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • Turkish: hüzünlü — sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour