morose
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
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs
Adjective
morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)
- Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- 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
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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)
Derived terms
Related terms
Further reading
- “morose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Adjective
morose
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /moːˈroː.se/, [moːˈroːs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈro.se/, [moˈrɔːs̬e]
Adjective
(deprecated template usage) mōrōse
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.
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