morose

Meaning

Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

Synonyms

sullen

sulky

glum

surly

gloomy

moody

sour

sad

☹️

dour

peevish

dark

crabbed

saturnine

unhappy

☹️

bleak

cross

glowering

grumpy

pettish

dismal

depressed

cheerless

in a bad mood

cranky

churlish

sorrowful

rough

melancholy

irascible

bad-tempered

irritable

splenetic

disagreeable

brutal

dejected

browned off

austere

deep

boring

ill-natured

harsh

bloody-minded

aloof

acid

gruff

grouching

contemplative

horrible

coarse

gaunt

Translations

morose

sombre

mürrisch

malhumorado

gemelijk

aalwaardig

verdrießlich

aalwarig

σκυθρωπός

cupo

taciturno

nors

maussade

griesgrämig

Pronounced as (IPA)

/məˈɹəʊs/

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.