morose

Meaning of morose

adjective
  1. sullen and ill-tempered.
    she was morose and silent when she got home

mid 16th century: from Latin morosus ‘peevish’, from mos, mor- ‘manner’.

Information about morose

  • It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of morose

mo-rose

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • morose is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

morose synonyms

Meaning dark:

dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen

Meaning morose, bad-tempered, and resentful; refusing to be cooperative or cheerful:

sulky

Meaning causing or feeling depression or despondency:

gloomy

Meaning bad-tempered and unfriendly:

surly

Meaning (of a person or their manner or expression) serious or unfriendly; not smiling:

unsmiling

Meaning unwilling to talk or impart information:

uncommunicative

Meaning (of a person) reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little:

taciturn

Meaning not responsive:

unresponsive

Meaning not enjoying or making an effort to behave sociably in the company of others:

unsociable

Meaning frown in an angry or bad-tempered way:

scowling

Meaning dark or dull in colour or tone:

sombre

Meaning not affected by alcohol; not drunk:

sober

Meaning tending to see the worst aspect of things or believe that the worst will happen:

pessimistic

Meaning looking or sounding sad and dismal:

lugubrious

Meaning feeling, expressing, or inducing sadness, regret, or grief:

mournful

Meaning having a feeling of melancholy; sad and pensive:

melancholy

Meaning feeling or expressing pensive sadness:

melancholic

Meaning expressing sorrow; mournful:

doleful

Meaning (of a person) wretchedly unhappy or uncomfortable:

miserable

Meaning (of a person or their mood) gloomy:

dismal

Meaning (of a person) in a state of unhappiness or despondency:

depressed

Meaning sad and depressed; dispirited:

dejected

Meaning in low spirits from loss of hope or courage:

despondent

Meaning (of a person) feeling despondent:

downcast

Meaning not happy:

unhappy

Meaning depressed or lacking in energy:

low

Meaning (of a person or mood) melancholy, sad, or depressed:

blue

Meaning unhappy or depressed:

down

Meaning bad-tempered and irritable:

grumpy

Meaning having or showing a tendency to be easily annoyed:

irritable

Meaning rude in a mean-spirited and surly way:

churlish

Meaning bad-tempered, argumentative, and uncooperative:

cantankerous

Meaning irritable:

crotchety, crabby

Meaning annoyed:

cross

Meaning bad-tempered:

crabbed

Meaning irritable and bad-tempered; grumpy; complaining:

grouchy

Meaning easily irritated; impatient and somewhat bad-tempered:

testy

Meaning (of a dog) irritable and inclined to bite:

snappish

Meaning having or showing an irritable disposition:

peevish

Meaning having or acting as a hard outer layer or covering:

crusty

Meaning readily expressing anger or irritation:

waspish

Meaning bad-tempered or irritable:

narky

Meaning in a petulant bad mood; sulky or grumpy:

mardy

Meaning sullen; sulky:

mumpish

morose antonyms

Meaning noticeably happy and optimistic:

cheerful

Meaning feeling or showing pleasure or contentment:

happy

Meaning willing, eager, or able to talk or impart information:

communicative

Translation of morose

Anagrams of morose

Mooers, Mooser, Romeos, romeos

Words that rhyme with morose

Rose, rose, Larose, Sepharose, agarose, arose, canarose, cymarose, disaccharose, monosaccharose, polysaccharose, rearose, saccharose, trisaccharose, Ambrose, Brose, ambrose, brose, cerebrose, cribrose, fibrose, isotherombrose, labrose, tenebrose, umbrose, waterbrose, acrose, crose, necrose, sucrose, trichlorogalactosucrose, trichlorosucrose, Wildrose, oleandrose, windrose, Bellerose, Lerose, acerbityacerose, acerose, aggerose, coperose, erose, gibberose, glycerose, hederose, literose, mulierose, nigerose, numerose, onerose

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