morose

English

Etymology

From Latin morosus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mos (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹəʊs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɒˈɹoʊs/

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Adjective

morose (comparative moroser, superlative morosest)

1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour

Synonyms

• melancholy
• sulky
• crabby
• glum
• grouchy
• gruff
• moody

Translations

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour

• Armenian: մռայլ (hy) (mṙayl), խոժոռ (hy) (xožoṙ)
• Chinese: 郁闷
• Dutch: nors (nl), mismoedig
• Finnish: yrmeä (fi), näreä, äreä (fi), nyreä
• French: sombre (fr)
• German: verdrießlich (de), mißmutig (de)
• Greek: σκυθρωπός (el) (skythropós)
• Irish: púiceach
• Korean: 슬픈,시무룩한 (seulpeun,simurukhan)

• 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)

Related terms

• morosely
• moroseness
• morosity

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes

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French

Etymology

Latin morosus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁoz/

Adjective

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

Derived terms

• morosement
• morosité

Further reading

• “morose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Adjective

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

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Latin

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 Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)