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English Dictionary: saturnine	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for saturnine
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
saturnine adj bitter or scornful; "the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde 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]:
Saturnine \Sat"urnine\, a. [L. Saturnus the god Saturn, also, the planet Saturn: cf. F. saturnin of or pertaining to lead (Saturn, in old chemistry, meaning lead), saturnien saturnine, saturnian. See {Saturn}.] 1. Born under, or influenced by, the planet Saturn. 2. Heavy; grave; gloomy; dull; -- the opposite of {mercurial}; as, a saturnine* person or temper. --Addison. 3. (Old Chem.) Of or pertaining to lead; characterized by, or resembling, lead, which was formerly called Saturn. [Archaic] {Saturnine colic} (Med.), lead colic.