morose

morose
    adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
           proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
           shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and
           unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic
           young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen
           crowd" [syn: {dark}, {dour}, {glowering}, {glum},
           {moody}, {morose}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]
    

Morose \Mo*rose"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]s"), a. [L. morosus, prop.,
   excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos,
   moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
   1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
      "A morose and affected taciturnity." --I. Watts.
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   2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
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   Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty;
        churlish; surly; ill-humored.
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63 Moby Thesaurus words for "morose":
      autistic, bashful, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, brooding,
      broody, brusque, chapfallen, choleric, close, crabbed, cranky,
      crestfallen, dark, dejected, dissociable, dour, dumpish, frowning,
      gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, gruff, grum, incompatible,
      insociable, irascible, irritable, long-faced, lowering, melancholy,
      moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, mumpish, nongregarious,
      saturnine, scowling, self-contained, self-sufficient, sick, sickly,
      snug, socially incompatible, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly,
      testy, ugly, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable,
      uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, waspish