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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹəʊs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈɹoʊs/, /mɔɹˈoʊs/

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• Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs

Adjective

morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)

1. 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.

Related terms

• morosely
• moroseness
• morosity

 

Translations

sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour

• Armenian: մռայլ (hy) (mṙayl), խոժոռ (hy) (xožoṙ)
• Bulgarian: мрачен (bg) (mračen), навъсен (bg) (navǎsen)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin 鬱悶 (zh), 郁闷 (zh) (yùmèn)

  Min Nan 鬱悶, 郁闷 (ut-būn)

• 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)
• German: verdrießlich (de), missmutig (de)
• Greek: σκυθρωπός (el) (skythropós)
• Irish: púiceach
• Korean: 시무룩하다 (ko) (simurukhada)

• Latin: mōrōsus
• 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)

Further reading

• morose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• morose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
• morose at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Moores, Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mōrōsus (“peevish, wayward”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁoz/
• Homophone: moroses

Adjective

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

Derived terms

• morosement
• morosité

Related terms

• mœurs

Further reading

• “morose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Adjective

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

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Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moːˈroː.se/, [moːˈroːs̠ɛ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈro.se/, [moˈrɔːs̬e]

Adjective

mōrōse

1. 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