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词汇 saturnine
释义 saturnine
adjective
 literaryuk /ˈsæt.ə.naɪn/ us /ˈsæt̬.ɚ.naɪn/
serious and unfriendly: 阴郁的;严肃的
a saturnine character/look阴郁的性格/阴沉的表情
Synonym
morose
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Lacking humour
a laugh a minuteidiom
be no laughing matteridiom
beyond
beyond a jokeidiom
earnestly
earnestness
humourless
humourlessly
intense
lightly
sober
soberly
solemnity
sombrely
sombreness
starchy
straight-facedly
turgid
turgidity
turgidly

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saturnine
A medieval doctor would have called him saturnine.
There is the mercurial temperament, the genial temperament, the saturnine temperament, and they are very different things.
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It was saturnine, self-contained and almost stealthy.
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Saturnine, manifesting at a large size, shattered the bridge the two were on.
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They ran the gamut of sounds and emotions from electronic and avant-garde to acoustic and symphonic, joyous and dreamy to saturnine and sardonic.
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He is said to have been a prodigious magical student in his day, and is described as having a wolfish, saturnine face with a tangle of iron-grey beard.
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