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morose

Pronunciation: /məˈɹəʊs/

The English word “morose” has 1 meaning listed here.

adjective

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

Etymology

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

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