morose

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

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Adjective

morose (comparative moroser, superlative morosest)

1. Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Romeos, mooers, more so, moreso, roomes

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mɔ.ʁoz/

Adjective

morose (plural moroses)

1. sullen, gloomy, morose

Further reading

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

Adjective

morose

1. feminine plural of moroso

Adjective

mōrōse

1. vocative masculine singular of mōrōsus

References

• 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