Crossword clues for morose
morose
- Moody Maureen meets another woman
- Sullen, bad-tempered
- Second sort of wine is sour
- Romeo's disposition is melancholic
- Bad-tempered sailor on board again
- Bad-tempered beast devouring ram's head
- Dour old male knocked over wine
- Doctor got up and down
- Bummed out
- Code name
- Far from festive
- Unsociable and brooding
- Really down
- Opposite of cheerful
- Having a cheerless disposition
- Exuding gloom
- Oozing gloom
- Lacking in joy
- In a gloomy mood
- In a black mood
- Gloomy, like Dr. House
- Feeling very gloomy
- Always down
- In the dumps
- Ill-humored
- Moody
- Sour
- Down in the dumps
- Far from bright
- Like Eeyore, in "Winnie-the-Pooh"
- Sulky
- In a sour mood
- Gloomy; sullen
- Down in the mouth
- Downcast
- Sullen and gloomy
- Dejected
- Glum
- Down at the mouth
- Blue
- Sad
- Surly; sullen
- Depressed
- Gloomy, ordinary seaman on board again
- Gloomy king beset by wild animal
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Morose \Mo*rose"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]s"), a. [L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. ``A morose and affected taciturnity.''
--I. Watts.-
Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1530s "gloomy," from Latin morosus "morose, peevish, hypercritical, fastidious," from mos (genitive moris) "habit, custom" (see moral (adj.)). In English, manners by itself means "(good) manners," but here the implication in Latin is "(bad) manners." Related: Morosity.
Wiktionary
a. sullen, gloomy; showing a brood ill humour
WordNet
adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "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"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen]
Usage examples of "morose".
EPI: Fie, master Morose, that you will use this violence to a man of the church.
HAU: It shall not need, mistress Morose, we will all bear, rather than one shall be opprest.
HAU: I will tell you, Morose, you must talk divinity to him altogether, or moral philosophy.
HAU: Good Morose, when you come to the college, will you bring him with you?
His expression was morose, his black eyes abstracted as he sipped his third cup of coffee, then drew on his cigarette.
His expression turned morose and brooding as he gazed across the restaurant absently.
They are not with you a morose and gloomy sullenness brooding over imaginary wrongs, and collecting venom and malice from every corner to the heart.
Bloom sighed, outwardly morose, inwardly almost ecstatic, sensing that at the end of this telephone call he was going to be off at least one hook.
One dusty hot morning as that morose lonely man was blundering awkwardly about town in search of his pig, he almost stepped on a baby robin crouched in the road, its eyes closed and its cavernous yellow beak wide open, plaintively chirping for worms.
Sometimes Jerry Grindstaff muddled ponderously through a game, but most players considered him too morose to begin with, and they grew gloomier as he grew gloomier as his losings inevitably multiplied.
To them he was just this morose man whose basic moods were cranky and bitter.
I am not that being--cold, insensate, and morose, which I have seemed to thee.
But probably it was a good idea to go out into the community and work with someone who might genuinely need my help, since it could distract me from my morose self-interest and maybe make me a little more human.
Desolate and morose, I moved over the carpet, pulled myself up from step to step, but neglected all the gradual prayers I knew.
Conscientious but morose, I went about my studies, strode dismally through the rectilinear suburban streets to the Kleinhammer-Weg, visited Gretchen Scheffler, who told me about Strength through Joy trips to the land of the midnight sun, while I went right on comparing Goethe with Rasputin or, when I had enough of the cyclic and endless alternation of dark and radiant, took refuge in historical studies.