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How to pronounce morose in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, saturnine, sour, sullen
Derivation moroseness


a morose and unsociable manner.

Examples of morose

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Both morose and verbose, Dylan Moran is one of the finest stand-ups of our time.
From the metro.co.uk
As usual, viewers are advised to steel themselves for many morose moments, too.
From the post-gazette.com
The songs are hormonal yet thoughtful, mostly morose but always energetically so.
From the time.com
They introduce their songs and play them well, but appear morose, unwilling even.
From the independent.co.uk
Mikhail Petrenko was appropriately stolid and morose as their nemesis, Hunding.
From the bloomberg.com
When she turns 60 she may become even more morose than her co-generationist, Bill.
From the edition.cnn.com
It's about a guy who stays in bed all day and is utterly morose and miserable.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yeston's songs, sometimes funny, sometimes morose, have never sounded better.
From the bloomberg.com
A joyless season took another morose turn with Sunday's 35-17 loss to Jacksonville.
From the kentucky.com
More examples
  • Dark: 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"
  • (moroseness) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
  • (moroseness) sulkiness: a sullen moody resentful disposition
  • Melancholia was one of the four temperaments in proto-psychology and pre-modern medicine, representing a state of low mood.
  • Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
  • If you find yourself morose in dreams, you will awake to find the world, as far as you are concerned, going fearfully wrong. To see others morose, portends unpleasant occupations and unpleasant companions.
  • Sullenly melancholy; gloomy