morose

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

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /məˈɹəʊs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /məˈɹoʊs/, /mɔɹˈoʊs/

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• Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs

morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)

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

   Synonyms: melancholy, sulky, crabby, glum, grouchy, gruff, moody

   • 1857, R. M. Ballantyne, The Coral Island:

     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.

• morose delectation

• “morose”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “morose”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “morose”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Moores, Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes

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

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁoz/
• Homophone: moroses

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

• morosement
• morosité

• mœurs

• “morose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /moːˈroː.se/, [moːˈroːs̠ɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /moˈro.se/, [moˈrɔːs̬e]

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.