morose
English edit
Etymology edit
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /məˈɹəʊs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /məˈɹoʊs/, /mɔɹˈoʊs/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊs, -oʊs
Adjective edit
morose (comparative more morose or moroser, superlative most morose or morosest)
- Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
- 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.
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Translations edit
sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour
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Further reading edit
- “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.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mōrōsus (“peevish, wayward”).
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
morose (plural moroses)
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Further reading edit
- “morose”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian edit
Adjective edit
morose
Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /moːˈroː.se/, [moːˈroːs̠ɛ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /moˈro.se/, [moˈrɔːs̬e]
Adjective edit
mōrōse
References edit
- “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.