Of a person's mood or character: gloomy, sad; sullen.

In regard to a person's temperament, mood, or manner: gloomy, melancholy, dejected, downcast, grim; not easily enlivened, enthused, or cheered; (in…

Resembling (that of) Saturn (either the god or the planet); (occasionally) saturnine.

Saturnine, gloomy, melancholy.

Gloomy, melancholy; = saturnine, adj. 1a. Also of appearance or demeanour: forbidding, stern; = saturnine, adj. 1b. Obsolete.

Saturnine, gloomy.

Gloomy, melancholy, grim; stern, forbidding. Cf. saturnine, adj. 1a. Now rare.