morose

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹəʊs/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mɒˈɹoʊs/

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morose (comparative moroser, superlative morosest)

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

• melancholy
• sulky
• crabby
• glum
• grouchy
• gruff
• moody

• morosely
• moroseness
• morosity

• morose in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• morose in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• morose at OneLook Dictionary Search

• Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁoz/

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

• morosement
• morosité

• mœurs

• “morose” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

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