MOROSE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does morose mean? 

• MOROSE (adjective)
  The adjective MOROSE has 1 sense:

1. showing a brooding ill humor

  Familiarity information: MOROSE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOROSE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Showing a brooding ill humor

Synonyms:

dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen

Context example:

a sullen crowd

Similar:

ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)

Derivation:

moroseness (a sullen moody resentful disposition)

moroseness (a gloomy ill-tempered feeling)

 Context examples 

Ferguson appeared to be a morose and silent man, but I could see from the little that he said that he was at least a fellow-countryman.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The rest of the men were morose and silent.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

But he was too morose and solitary for that.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

All that day and the next and the next Holmes was in a mood which his friends would call taciturn, and others morose.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Some do not, and that is trying, observed Aunt March, looking over her spectacles at Jo, who sat apart, rocking herself, with a somewhat morose expression.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He is a silent, morose man, but he has, on the whole, an excellent record in the public service.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He became more morose and irritable, and when camp was pitched at once made his nest, where his driver fed him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

That minister was galbet, or admiral of the realm, very much in his master’s confidence, and a person well versed in affairs, but of a morose and sour complexion.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

Master Micawber, whose disposition appeared to have been soured by early disappointment, and whose aspect had become morose, yielded to his better feelings, and blubbered.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He was moody, too; unaccountably so; I more than once, when sent for to read to him, found him sitting in his library alone, with his head bent on his folded arms; and, when he looked up, a morose, almost a malignant, scowl blackened his features.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)