Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: morose
IPA transcription: [mɚ'oʊs]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
    Meaning: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
Usage examples
  • Now morose and brooding, now loudly profane, now laughing or now aloof, his errand in these unknown hills was plain.
  • On one side of her loomed the morose countenance of the Major, on the other she was conscious of the scared, miserable eyes of Vladimir.
  • He moodily shot up a saloon in a small cow village on Quintana Creek, killed the town marshal (plugging him neatly in the centre of his tin badge), and then rode away, morose and unsatisfied.