saturnine
Meaning of saturnine
- Of a person: having a tendency to be cold, bitter, gloomy, sarcastic, and slow to change and react.
- Of a setting: depressing, dull, gloomy.
- Of, pertaining to, or containing lead (which was symbolically associated with the planet Saturn by alchemists).
- Of a disease: caused by lead poisoning (saturnism); of a person: affected by lead poisoning.
- Pertaining to the astrological influence of the planet Saturn; having the characteristics of a person under such influence (see sense 1).
Information about saturnine
- It is an adjective.
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Hyphenation of saturnine
sat-ur-nine
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- saturnine is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
saturnine synonyms
Meaning dark:
dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, sour, sullen
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saturnine antonyms
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Translation of saturnine
- Italian: scontento, fosco, torvo
- French: sombre, morose, lugubre
- Spanish: apesadumbrado, apesadumbrada, lúgubre
Anagrams of saturnine
Neustrian, Rautensin, Sturninae
Words that rhyme with saturnine
Nine, nine, Alajouanine, AlphaNine, Geanine, Janine, Jeanine, Nanine, Phthalocyanine, acetylalanine, acetylalanylalanine, acetylphenylalanine, acetyltaurylphenylalanine, alanine, alanylalanine, alanylglycylalanine, alanylphenylalanine, allocyanine, allylrhodanine, amidinophenylalanine, aminmethoxyphenylalanine, aminoalanine, aminobutylalanine, aminomethylphenylalanine, aminophenylalanine, aminopteroylalanine, aminorhodanine, ancistrotanzanine, anilinoalanine, anilinorhodanine, aposafranine, arabinofuranosylguanine, arginylphenylalanine, aspartylalanine, aspartylphenylalanine, azidoalanine, azidophenylalanine, benzoylbuxahyrcanine, benzoylphenylalanine, benzylalanine, benzylaminododecylguanine, benzylguanine, benzylideneaminorhodanine, benzylidenerhodanine, benzyloxycarbonylalanine, benzyloxycarbonylphenylalanine, benzyloxycarbonylphenylalanylalanine, benzyloxycarbonylphenylalanylphenylalanine, benzyloxycarbonyltyrosylalanine, benzyloxyguanine