Word Meanings - MOROSE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: 1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts. 2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. Syn. -- Sullen; gruff;

Additional info about word: MOROSE

particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: 1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts. 2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. Syn. -- Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MOROSE)

• Austere
• Hard
• rigid
• stern
• severe
• morose
• unrelenting
• unyielding
• strict
• rigorous
• harsh
• sour
• relentless
• Crabbed
• Sour
• crossgrained
• petulant
• churlish
• irritable
• crusty
• Cross-grained
• Perverse
• wayward
• peevish
• cantankerous
• ill-conditioned
• Dogged
• Obstinate
• sullen
• impracticable
• prejudiced
• Moody
• Sullen
• humorsome
• gloomy

Related words: (words related to MOROSE)

• PREJUDICATIVE
  Forming a judgment without due examination; prejudging. Dr. H. More.
• STERNFOREMOST
  With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner. A fatal genius for going sternforemost. Lowell.
• CRABBER
  One who catches crabs.
• STERNUTATORY
  Sternutative. -- n.
• STRICT
  Upright, or straight and narrow; -- said of the shape of the plants or their flower clusters. Syn. -- Exact; accurate; nice; close; rigorous; severe. -- Strict, Severe. Strict, applied to a person, denotes that he conforms in his motives and acts
• STERNOHYOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.
• STERNAL
  Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum. Sternal ribs. See the Note under Rib, n., 1.
• GLOOMY
  1. Imperfectly illuminated; dismal through obscurity or darkness; dusky; dim; clouded; as, the cavern was gloomy. "Though hid in gloomiest shade." Milton. 2. Affected with, or expressing, gloom; melancholy; dejected; as, a gloomy temper
• CROSSGRAINED
  1. Having the grain or fibers run diagonally, or more or less transversely an irregularly, so as to interfere with splitting or planing. If the stuff proves crossgrained, . . . then you must turn your stuff to plane it the contrary way. Moxon.
• PREJUDICAL
  Of or pertaining to the determination of some matter not previously decided; as, a prejudical inquiry or action at law.
• STERNSMAN
  A steersman.
• STERNMOST
  Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.
• MOROSE
  particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: 1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. "A morose and affected taciturnity." I. Watts. 2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. Syn. -- Sullen; gruff;
• IRRITABLE
  Endowed with irritability; susceptible of irritation; capable of being excited to action by the application of certain stimuli. (more info) 1. Capable of being irriated. 2. Very susceptible of anger or passion; easily inflamed or exasperated; as,
• STERNOMASTOID
  Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.
• MOROSENESS
  Sourness of temper; sulenness. Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness. I. Watts. Note: Moroseness is not precisely peevishness or fretfulness, though often accompained with it. It denotes
• RIGID
  1. Firm; stiff; unyielding; not pliant; not flexible. Upright beams innumerable Of rigid spears. Milton. 2. Hence, not lax or indulgent; severe; inflexible; strict; as, a rigid father or master; rigid discipline; rigid criticism; a rigid sentence.
• CRABBISH
  Somewhat sour or cross. The wips of the most crabbish Satyristes. Decker.
• CANTANKEROUS
  Perverse; contentious; ugly; malicious. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ly, adv. -- Can*tan"ker*ous*ness, n. The cantankerous old maiden aunt. Theckeray.
• RIGIDLY
  In a rigid manner; stiffly.
• ASTRICT
  To restrict the tenure of; as, to astrict lands. See Astriction, 4. Burrill. (more info) 1. To bind up; to confine; to constrict; to contract. The solid parts were to be relaxed or astricted. Arbuthnot. 2. To bind; to constrain; to restrict; to
• BOA CONSTRICTOR
  A large and powerful serpent of tropical America, sometimes twenty or thirty feet long. See Illustration in Appendix. Note: It has a succession of spots, alternately black and yellow, extending along the back. It kills its prey by constriction.
• PROSTERNATION
  Dejection; depression. Wiseman.
• OVERRIGOROUS
  Too rigorous; harsh.
• EPISTERNUM
  One of the lateral pieces next to the sternum in the thorax of insects. (more info) A median bone connected with the sternum, in many vertebrates; the interclavicle. Same as Epiplastron.
• RESTRICT
  Restricted.
• REDISTRICT
  To divide into new districts.
• SUPRASTERNAL
  Situated above, or anterior to, the sternum.