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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. showing a brooding ill humor;
- Example: "a dark scowl"
- Example: "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"
- Example: "a glum, hopeless shrug"
- Example: "he sat in moody silence"
- Example: "a morose and unsociable manner"
- Example: "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- Example: "a sour temper"
- Example: "a sullen crowd"
[syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Morose \Mo*rose"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]s"), a. [L. morosus, prop.,
   excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos,
   moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
   1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
      "A morose and affected taciturnity." --I. Watts.
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   2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
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   Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty;
        churlish; surly; ill-humored.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

morose
    adj 1: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the
           proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless
           shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and
           unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic
           young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen
           crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glowering, glum,
           moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]