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单词 morosely
释义

morose

adjective

mo·​rose mə-ˈrōs How to pronounce morose (audio)
mȯ-
1
: having a sullen and gloomy disposition
2
: marked by or expressive of gloom
morosely adverb
moroseness noun
morosity
mə-ˈrä-sə-tē How to pronounce morose (audio)
mȯ-
noun

Synonyms

  • black
  • bleak
  • cheerless
  • chill
  • Cimmerian
  • cloudy
  • cold
  • comfortless
  • dark
  • darkening
  • depressing
  • depressive
  • desolate
  • dire
  • disconsolate
  • dismal
  • drear
  • dreary
  • dreich [chiefly Scottish]
  • elegiac
  • elegiacal
  • forlorn
  • funereal
  • gloomy
  • glum
  • godforsaken
  • gray
  • grey
  • lonely
  • lonesome
  • lugubrious
  • miserable
  • morbid
  • murky
  • plutonian
  • saturnine
  • sepulchral
  • solemn
  • somber
  • sombre
  • sullen
  • sunless
  • tenebrific
  • tenebrous
  • wretched
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Example Sentences

She thought of the bootlegger at home—a raddled, skinny old man, morose and suspicious. He sat on his front step with a shotgun on Halloween night. Alice Munro, Runaway, 2004 We have little finished footage to go by, but enough to give us pause: an exquisite clip of Rochefort, sitting with a book in the half-darkness, his eyes wet, gleaming, and morose. Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 3 Feb. 2003 I have never known if Momma sent for us, or if the St. Louis family just got fed up with my grim presence. There is nothing more appalling than a constantly morose child. Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969 He became morose and withdrawn and would not talk to anyone. those morose job seekers who have grown accustomed to rejection
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Word History

Etymology

Latin morosus, literally, capricious, from mor-, mos will

First Known Use

1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

morose

adjective

mo·​rose mə-ˈrōs How to pronounce morose (audio)
mȯ-
: very serious, unhappy, and quiet
She became morose and spoke to no one.

morosely

adverb

as in glumly

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • glumly
  • sullenly
  • gloomily
  • forlornly
  • somberly
  • dourly
  • dejectedly
  • joylessly
  • disconsolately
  • drearily
  • darkly
  • despondently
  • mirthlessly
  • pessimistically
  • miserably
  • dismally
  • despairingly
  • blackly
  • dispiritedly
  • distressfully
  • cheerlessly
  • distressingly
  • mournfully
  • abjectly
  • dolefully
  • lugubriously
  • sorrowfully
  • sharply
  • bitterly
  • ruefully
  • plaintively
  • unhappily
  • resentfully
  • poignantly
  • acutely
  • harshly
  • piercingly
  • dolorously
  • painfully
  • downheartedly
  • inconsolably
  • keenly
  • regretfully
  • severely
  • sadly
  • woefully
  • agonizingly
  • grievously
  • wretchedly
  • crestfallenly
  • low-spiritedly
  • cruelly
  • sorely
  • hurtfully
  • ill
  • rancorously
  • wailfully
  • hard
  • hardly

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • happily
  • blissfully
  • joyously
  • joyfully
  • cheerily
  • cheerfully
  • merrily
  • gayly
  • delightedly
  • gleefully
  • sunnily
  • gladly
  • gaily
  • mirthfully
  • impassively
  • lightheartedly
  • nonchalantly
  • stoically
  • casually
  • unconcernedly
  • calmly
  • indifferently
  • dispassionately
  • blithely
  • rejoicingly
  • lightly
  • easily
  • good-naturedly
  • well
  • favorably
  • blithesomely
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