morose
UK/məˈɹəʊs//məˈɹoʊs/
morose adjective: sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
Adjective
morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)
- Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- 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.1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island
- 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 itself1996, “10's”, in The Great Southern Trendkill, performed by Pantera
- Synonyms:
- melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody, gloomy, ill-tempered, ill-humored
morose meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
morose in Hindi
- morose
- तुर्श turś
morose in Tamil
- சிடுசிடுப்பான, முகந்திரி பான, முகவாட்டமான, முகவாட்டமுடைய
morose in Urdu
- آزردہ, کٹھور, اداس
morose in Bengali
- বিষণ্ণ, মনমরা, খিটখিটে মেজাজের
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- morose in Malayalam
- നീരസമുളള, മുഖം കനപ്പിച്ച, കോപമുഖമുളള
- morose in Kannada
- ಚಿಂತಾಕ್ರಾಂತ, ವ್ಯಾಕುಲಿತ, ಸಿಡುಕು ಸ್ವಭಾವದ, ಮಂಕಾದ
- morose in Persian
- عبوس abus
Synonyms of morose
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Forms of morose
| comparative | more morose |
|---|---|
| comparative | moroser |
| superlative | most morose |
| superlative | morosest |
Origin of morose
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
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Questions about morose
- What does morose mean?
- Morose means sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- What is morose in Hindi?
- Morose in Hindi is तुर्श (turś). See Morose meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is morose?
- Morose is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce morose?
- Morose is pronounced /məˈɹəʊs/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: morose (page history and authors); तुर्श (Hindi) (page history and authors); morose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morose (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morose (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morose (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); morose (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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