Morose

//məˈɹəʊs//

Synonyms for "morose" (167 found)

Ranked by relevance and common usage.

Closest matches (34)

glowering glum gruff melancholy moody sulky autistic bashful beetle browed beetle-browed black black-browed blue broken-hearted brooding broody brusque cantankerous chapfallen choleric

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close crabbed crabby cranky crestfallen cross dark

Adjective(6 words)

blitheless blue bummed out cheerless crabby cut up

Adjective(1 words)

dark

Strong matches (50)

dejected despondent disagreeable dismal dissociable dour dreary dumpish frowning funereal gloomy grim grouchy grum heartbroken heavy hopeless ill-natured incompatible

Adjective(28 words)

depressed desolate despondent disconsolate disheartened dismal doleful dolesome down down in the dumps down in the mouth downcast downhearted downsome dull dyspeptic elegiac forlorn gloomy glum

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grief-stricken grouchy gruff heartsick heartsore heavy-hearted ill-humored ill-tempered

Adjective(3 words)

dour glowering glum

Related words (83)

Related word relations

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5 relation types

Synonyms

8 entries

crabby glowering glum grouchy gruff melancholy moody sulky

Related terms

3 entries

morosely moroseness morosity

derived

2 entries

morose delectation unmorose

related to

8 entries

brood gloomy humour ill morosely moroseness morosity sullen

similar

1 entries

ill-natured

Translations

52 translations across 24 languages.

Armenian

2 entries

խոժոռ adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
մռայլ adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Bulgarian

2 entries

мрачен adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
навъсен adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Chinese

1 entries

鬱悶 /郁闷 adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Chinese Mandarin

1 entries

鬱悶 /郁闷 adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Czech

4 entries

mrzutý adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
nabručený adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
nerudný adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
nevrlý adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Danish

4 entries

melankolsk adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
mismodig adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
sørgmodig adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
tvær adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Dutch

2 entries

mismoedig adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
nors adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Finnish

4 entries

nyreä adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
näreä adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
yrmeä adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
äreä adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

French

2 entries

morose adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
sombre adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

German

3 entries

missmutig adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
moros adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
verdrießlich adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Greek

1 entries

σκυθρωπός adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Hungarian

1 entries

zord adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Irish

1 entries

púiceach adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Korean

1 entries

시무룩하다 adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Latin

2 entries

maestus adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
tristis adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Māori

1 entries

haumāruru adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Polish

2 entries

ponury adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
posępny adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Portuguese

1 entries

taciturno adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Romanian

3 entries

morocănos adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
moros adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
ursuz adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Russian

2 entries

мра́чный adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
угрю́мый adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Scottish Gaelic

1 entries

gruamach adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Slovak

3 entries

mrzutý adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
nevrlý adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
rozmrzený adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Spanish

1 entries

malhumorado adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

Turkish

3 entries

bunlu adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
hüzünlü adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)
kederli adj (sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour)

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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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.