morose
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morose
- /məˈɹəʊs/ UK
- /məˈɹoʊs/ US
- /mɔɹˈoʊs/ US
Rhymes with -əʊs, -oʊs
Where it comes from
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
adjective more morose · moroser · most morose · morosest
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Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
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.
Similar: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody, gloomy, ill-tempered, ill-humored, morose, sullen
Translations
Talk about this word "morose." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/morose. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. morose. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/morose "morose." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/morose.Cite this
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