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Another word for morose

morose Synonyms

morose

modif.

Gloomy
depressed, dolorous, melancholy; see sad 1, troubled 1.
Ill-humored
sullen, severe, glum, sour, splenetic, acrimonious, ill-natured, gruff, perversive, ill-tempered, sulky, gloomy, crusty, grouchy, surly, saturnine, churlish, mumpish, cantankerous, crabbed, cross, snappish, frowning, cross-grained, harsh; see also irritable, sullen.

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Another word for morose

adjective

Broodingly and sullenly unhappy:

dour, gloomy, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sulky, sullen, surly. See happy

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"I don't mean to sound morose," he said with a smile.
His face suddenly took on a morose expression.
When he came in to tea, silent, morose, and with tear-stained face, everybody pretended not to notice anything.
Those about him had never seen the count so morose and irritable.
The popular notion that Bentham was a morose visionary is far removed from fact.

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