All morose synonyms
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M m adj morose
- melancholy β sober thoughtfulness; pensiveness.
- sullen β showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve.
- grouchy β sullenly discontented; sulky; morose; ill-tempered.
- testy β irritably impatient; touchy.
- cranky β If you describe ideas or ways of behaving as cranky, you disapprove of them because you think they are strange.
- dour β sullen; gloomy: The captain's dour look depressed us all.
- sad β Systems Analysis Definition
- ugly β very unattractive or unpleasant to look at; offensive to the sense of beauty; displeasing in appearance.
- gloomy β dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glum β sullenly or silently gloomy; dejected.
- surly β churlishly rude or bad-tempered: a surly waiter. Synonyms: sullen, uncivil, brusque, irascible, splenetic, choleric, cross; grumpy, grouchy, crabby.
- acrimonious β Acrimonious words or quarrels are bitter and angry.
- blue β Something that is blue is the colour of the sky on a sunny day.
- brusque β blunt or curt in manner or speech
- cantankerous β Someone who is cantankerous is always finding things to argue or complain about.
- choleric β A choleric person gets angry very easily. You can also use choleric to describe a person who is very angry.
- churlish β Someone who is churlish is unfriendly, bad-tempered, or impolite.
- crabby β Someone who is crabby is bad-tempered and unpleasant to people.
- cross β If you cross something such as a room, a road, or an area of land or water, you move or travel to the other side of it. If you cross to a place, you move or travel over a room, road, or area of land or water in order to reach that place.
- dolorous β full of, expressing, or causing pain or sorrow; grievous; mournful: a dolorous melody; dolorous news.
- down β from higher to lower; in descending direction or order; toward, into, or in a lower position: to come down the ladder.
- gruff β low and harsh; hoarse: a gruff voice.
- harsh β ungentle and unpleasant in action or effect: harsh treatment; harsh manners.
- ill-tempered β bad or irritable disposition.
- irritable β easily irritated or annoyed; readily excited to impatience or anger.
- low β to utter by or as by lowing.
- moody β given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
- perverse β willfully determined or disposed to go counter to what is expected or desired; contrary.
- saturnine β sluggish in temperament; gloomy; taciturn.
- snappish β apt to snap or bite, as a dog.
- sour β having an acid taste, resembling that of vinegar, lemon juice, etc.; tart.
- sulky β marked by or given to sulking; sullen.
- taciturn β inclined to silence; reserved in speech; reluctant to join in conversation.
- troubled β to disturb the mental calm and contentment of; worry; distress; agitate.
- crabbed β surly; irritable; perverse
- down in the dumps β If you are down in the dumps, you are feeling very depressed and miserable.
- ill humor β a disagreeable or surly mood.
- moping β to be sunk in dejection or listless apathy; sulk; brood.
- perversive β tending to pervert.
- splenetic β of the spleen; splenic.
adjective morose
- miserable β wretchedly unhappy, uneasy, or uncomfortable: miserable victims of war.
- depressed β If you are depressed, you are sad and feel that you cannot enjoy anything, because your situation is so difficult and unpleasant.
- pessimistic β pertaining to or characterized by pessimism or the tendency to expect only bad outcomes; gloomy; joyless; unhopeful: His pessimistic outlook kept him from applying for jobs for which he was perfectly qualified.
- frowning β Present participle of frown.