morose
adjUK /məˈɹəʊs/ · US /məˈɹoʊs/
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.
1
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:
- Derived terms
- morose delectation, unmorose
- Related terms
- morosely, moroseness, morosity