saturnine

saturnine
    adj 1: bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy,
           and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde
    2: 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}]
    

Saturnine \Sat"ur*nine\, a. [L. Saturnus the god Saturn, also,
   the planet Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead
   (Saturn, in old chemistry, meaning lead), saturnien
   saturnine, saturnian. See {Saturn}.]
   1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn.
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   2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of
      {mercurial}; as, a saturnine person or temper. --Addison.
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   3. (Old Chem.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or
      resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn.
      [Archaic]
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   {Saturnine colic} (Med.), lead colic.
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34 Moby Thesaurus words for "saturnine":
      black, bleak, crabbed, dark, dismal, dour, drear, drearisome,
      dreary, funebrial, funereal, gloomy, glum, grave, gray, grim,
      moping, morose, reserved, serious, silent, solemn, somber,
      sombrous, staid, sulky, surly, taciturn, triste, ugly,
      uncommunicative, weariful, wearisome, weary