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Added 9 October 2026

morose

/məˈɹəʊs/ adjective

In Latin: tristis, maestus Wiktionary

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Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

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.

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