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moroseness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | glumness, sullenness |
| Type of | moodiness |
| Derivation | morose |
moroseness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | sourness, sulkiness, sullenness |
| Type of | ill nature |
| Derivation | morose |
Examples of moroseness
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Given the macro-economic moroseness, what's with the market giggles?
From the time.com
Feeding her moroseness by commiserating is not only tiresome, as you well know, but counterproductive.
From the stltoday.com
Most impressive is the aging, injured rig worker, played with easygoing, electrified moroseness by Keith Carradine.
From the newsday.com
Lines that could sparkle are delivered with a note of grumbling frustration, giving us pure moroseness instead of black comedy.
From the guardian.co.uk
Expressing confidence in the future rather than moroseness over the situation he inherited, Barack Obama is off to a good start, and so is 2009.
From the washingtontimes.com
Chekhov's depressed landowner is played with the requisite moroseness but with none of the 19th century Romantic airs that normally cling to the character.
From the variety.com
- A gloomy ill-tempered feeling
- Sulkiness: a sullen moody resentful disposition
- (morose) 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"
- Melancholia was one of the four temperaments in proto-psychology and pre-modern medicine, representing a state of low mood.
- Gloominess; sullenness; deep sadness
- (morose) Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
- (morose) sullenly melancholy; gloomy
- (Morose) 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.
