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Word entry · 6 letters

morose

Best crossword clue

"Deeply gloomy"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation /məˈɹəʊs/Part of speech adjectiveSorted emoorsStarts with MEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. showing a brooding ill humor

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.

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