morose

English

Etymology

From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹəʊs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈɹoʊs/, /mɔɹˈoʊs/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs

Adjective

morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)

1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

   Synonyms: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody; see also Thesaurus:sullen

   • 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island:

     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.

   • 1996, “10's”, in The Great Southern Trendkill, performed by Pantera:

     My skin is cold / Transfusion with somebody / Morose and old / Drop into fruitless dying / It was tempting and bared / The whoring angel rising / Now burning prayers / My silent time of losing / My foes, they can't destroy my body / Colliding slow, like life itself

Derived terms

• morose delectation
• unmorose

Related terms

• morosely
• moroseness
• morosity

Translations

sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour

• Armenian: մռայլ (hy) (mṙayl), խոժոռ (hy) (xožoṙ)
• Bulgarian: мрачен (bg) (mračen), навъсен (bg) (navǎsen)
• Chinese:

  Hokkien: 鬱悶 / 郁闷 (ut-būn)

  Mandarin: 鬱悶 / 郁闷 (zh) (yùmèn)

• Czech: mrzutý (cs), rozmrzelý (cs), zasmušilý, protivný (cs), rozladěný (cs), nerudný, nabručený, nevrlý
• Danish: melankolsk, sørgmodig, mismodig, tvær
• Dutch: nors (nl), mismoedig (nl)
• Finnish: yrmeä (fi), näreä, äreä (fi), nyreä
• French: sombre (fr), morose (fr)
• German: verdrießlich (de), missmutig (de), moros (de)
• Greek: σκυθρωπός (el) (skythropós)
• Hungarian: zord (hu)
• Irish: púiceach
• Korean: 시무룩하다 (ko) (simurukhada)
• Latin: tristis, maestus (la)
• Māori: haumāruru
• Persian: عبوس (fa) (abus)
• Polish: ponury (pl) m, posępny (pl) m
• Portuguese: taciturno (pt)
• Romanian: morocănos (ro), moros, ursuz (ro)
• Russian: угрю́мый (ru) (ugrjúmyj), мра́чный (ru) (mráčnyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: gruamach
• Slovak: rozmrzený, nevrlý, mrzutý
• Spanish: malhumorado (es)
• Turkish: kederli (tr), bunlu (tr), hüzünlü (tr)

Further reading

• “morose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “morose”, in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “morose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• moreso, mooers, roomes, Somero, Moores, more so, Romeos

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mōrōsus (“peevish, wayward”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁoz/
• Homophone: moroses

Adjective

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

Derived terms

• morosement
• morosité

Related terms

• mœurs

Further reading

• “morose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Italian

Adjective

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [moːˈroː.sɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [moˈrɔː.s̬e]

Adjective

mōrōse

1. vocative masculine singular of mōrōsus

References

• “morose”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “morose”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “morose”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.