Morose

/məˈɹəʊs/

Synonyms for "morose" (109 found)

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Closest matches (22)

Adjective(3 words)

autistic bashfulbeetle browedbeetle-browed black black-browed blue broken-hearted brooding broody brusque cantankerous chapfallen choleric close crabbed cranky crestfallen dark

Strong matches (33)

dejected disagreeable dismal dissociable dour dreary dumpish frowning funereal gloomy glowering glum grim gruff grum heartbroken heavy hopeless ill-natured incompatible

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insociable irascible irritable joylesslong faced

Adjective(8 words)

despondent droopiest gloomygloomy proseglowering glum glummer grim

Related words (54)

long-faced lowering lugubrious melancholy moodish moody mopey moping mopish morbid mumpish nongregarious sad saturnine scowling self-contained self-sufficient sick sickly snappish

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snugsocially incompatiblesolemn sombre splenetic sulky sullen surly testy tragic ugly unclubbable uncommunicative uncompanionable uncongenial unfriendly ungenial unsociable unsocial waspish

Adjective(10 words)

melancholic moody saturnine somber sour sulkier sulkiest sullenest surlier uncheerful

Verb(1 words)

pouted

Adjective(1 words)

sad

Noun(2 words)

sulking sullener

Related word relations

OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.

6 relation types

More general

2 entries

adjectivemood descriptor

More specific

3 entries

downcast dreary somber

Collocations

5 entries

morose demeanormorose expressionmorose moodmorose silencemorose tone

Inflections

2 entries

more morosemost morose

Derivations

2 entries

morosely moroseness

similar

1 entries

ill-natured

Sample sentences

4 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

He is morose today.

Source: tatoeba (4146433)

Why are you so morose?

Source: tatoeba (4337762)

The language of the beasts became clear to little Claus; but he never could understand their sulky and morose tempers.

Source: tatoeba (7564691)

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.

Source: wiktionary

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