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.

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

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• Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs

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

• “morose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “morose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “morose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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

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

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

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

• morosement
• morosité

• mœurs

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

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

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

mōrōse

1. vocative masculine singular of mōrōsus

• “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.