morose

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
8
Words With Friends
9
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/məˈɹəʊs/
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/məˈɹəʊs/ · /məˈɹoʊs/ · /mɔɹˈoʊs/

Definition of morose

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
    “If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.”
    “My skin is cold / Transfusion with somebody / Morose and old / Drop into fruitless dying / It was tempting and bared / The whoring angel rising / Now burning prayers / My silent time of losing / My foes, they can't destroy my body / Colliding slow, like life itself”

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Etymology

From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

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