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English Dictionary: morose by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
morose
adj
  1. 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"
    Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morose \Mo*rose"\, a. [L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted
      to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner,
      habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
      1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe.
            [bd]A morose and affected taciturnity.[b8] --I. Watts.
  
      2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
  
      Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty;
               churlish; surly; ill-humored.
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