morose

CEFRC2

/məˈɹəʊs/

adjective

Türkçe translations

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In plain English

  1. 01

    adjective

    Unhappy, quiet, and unwilling to talk.

  2. 02

    adjective

    Extra detail

    Sullen and ill-tempered; gloomy.

Examples

  • He became increasingly morose after the loss.

  • He became quiet and morose after receiving the bad news.

At a glance

Sits at C2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
3
Parts of speech
1
Citations
2
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • /məˈɹoʊs/

Deep Dive

adjective

Extra meaning

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

More examples

In context

  • Her morose mood affected everyone around her.

  • 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.

Synonyms

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Origin

adjective

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