Diccionario ingles.comDiccionario ingles.com
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




Morose   /mərˈoʊs/   Listen
adjective
Morose  adj.  
1.
Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity."
2.
Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. (Obs.)
Synonyms: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Morose" Quotes from Famous Books



... advised by his doctor to seek rest in the country, and how, seeing the name of a village on the map that touches his imagination, he takes the train, feeling convinced he will find there an Arcadian simplicity. But the village he catches sight of from the carriage window is a morose and lonely village, in the midst of desolate plains. And worse than Nature are the human beings he sees at the station; they lurk in corners, they scrutinise his luggage, and gradually he believes them all to ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... said, earnestly; "but—but he has had trouble—a terrible disappointment in love, they say. He is morose at times—a sullen, suspicious man, one of those who are ever seeking for offence where none is dreamed of; a man quick to give umbrage, quicker to resent a fancied slight—a remorseless eye that fixes you with the passionless menace of a hawk's eye, ...
— The Maid-At-Arms • Robert W. Chambers
... he had suggested was possible, all day. The afternoon was spent by Count Victor in a dull enough fashion, for even Mungo seemed morose in his master's absence, perhaps overweighted by the mysteries now left to his charge, disinclined to talk of anything except the vast wars in which his ancestors had shone with blinding splendour, and of the world beyond the confines of Doom. But even his ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... means pleased with Panshin's song, pretty though it was. After waiting a moment and flicking the dust off his boots with a coarse pocket-handkerchief, this man suddenly raised his eyes, compressed his lips with a morose expression, and his stooping figure bent ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... Englishman very morose. He was quite glad when Charlie said he had seen enough of the cattle, and they would all start next day for civilisation—Charlie to resume the management of Mr. Grant's stations, Carew to go with him as ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 Diccionario ingles.com