Definitions for morose

morose mo·rose

Spelling: [muh-rohs]
IPA: /məˈroʊs/

Morose is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 96 anagrams from letters in morose (emoors).

Definitions for morose

adjective

  1. gloomily or sullenly ill-humored, as a person or mood.
  2. characterized by or expressing gloom.

Origin of morose

1555-65; Latin mōrōsus fretful, peevish, willful, equivalent to mōr- (stem of mōs) will, inclination + -ōsus -ose1

Examples for morose

It made him morose and gloomy, a man of one idea, to be shunned.

I found the morose philosophers (Nietzsche, Schopenhauer, Spengler) the most interesting.

Test audiences found the original ending too morose and wanted to see Alex get blown away.

He was tired and morose, and a settled worry clouded his face.

A morose Barack Obama, believing his presidency has no meaning, wanders the White House.

Even the Terrace was dusty, and the Members rusty and morose.

He carried with him the insecurities, foibles, and morose visions of fin de siècle Europe.

But Robin didn't laugh; his eyes, morose and cynical, held her there.

Lee McQueen could see beauty in the morose and even the morbid.

She unbound and bound him in sections, as it were; he watching her with a morose smile.

Word Value for morose
Scrable

8

Words with friends

9

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