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词汇 morose
释义 morose
adjective
uk /məˈrəʊs/ us /məˈroʊs/
unhappy, annoyed, and unwilling to speak or smile: 阴郁的;脾气不好的;孤僻的
a morose expression阴郁的表情
Why are you so morose these days?你这些天为什么闷闷不乐?
Synonyms
dour
gluminformal
moody
saturnineliterary
sullen
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feeling sad and unhappy
a long faceidiom
abjection
angsty
be cut upidiom
be down in the mouthidiom
be in a funkidiom
dismayed
displeased
dissatisfied
distraught
distressed
lachrymose
lonely
lonesome
lovelorn
wistful
wistfully
woe
woe is meidiom
woebegone

Related words


morosely
moroseness

morose | American Dictionary


morose
adjective
 fmlus/məˈroʊs/
unhappy or annoyed and unwilling to speak, smile, or be pleasant to people:
Michael became morose and withdrawn after he lost his job.

Examples of morose


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Conservatives ' ' were increasingly cognizant, ' ' he says, ' ' of the need to avoid either quixotic antistatism or morose authoritarianism if their movement was to capture national power and respect.
This insult makes me morose, discontented, bitter and a malcontent through no fault of one's own.
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I have seen myself how depressed and morose for substantial periods after refusal of parole a prisoner and his family can be.
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Then there is the boy who perhaps has a bad family background and who is a bit morose.
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That seems to me a sour and morose form of comfort.
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Under its influence the weak man becomes foolish, the morose man weeps, and the excitable man becomes exalted.
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Surely we cannot get over the difficulty by saying that prisoners who are really like wild beasts—morose, and subject to gusts of passion—are abnormal and ought to be certified insane.
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My friend, a man of cheerful, sunny character with an enormous capacity for enjoying life, gradually became bitter, morose, savage and often cruel to those around him.
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The alternative is something that is terrible to see—the patients sitting down, doing nothing, miserable and morose, and in fact waiting for death, whether consciously or otherwise.
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If you want men to continue to nurse a grievance and become morose, then you are doing it when you refuse a willing worker any source of income except.
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Normally happy men become morose, distrustful, embittered.
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Her boyfriend died of aids, having despaired and become morose because of the disease.
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This foreknowledge of his own (suspected) demise led to a somewhat subdued, even morose, demeanor.
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It was noted he barely spoke and became more morose in the last weeks of his life.
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His melancholy subjects came from outside eventssuch as his own and his brothers affliction with tuberculosisrather than from an internal disposition toward the morose.
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