What is another word for morose?
553 synonyms found
Pronunciation:
[ məɹˈə͡ʊs], [ məɹˈəʊs], [ m_ə_ɹ_ˈəʊ_s]
Morose is an adjective that describes someone who is sullen, gloomy, melancholy, or depressed. Some synonyms for morose include despondent, downcast, dejected, depressed, melancholy, low-spirited, gloomy, somber, sad, glum, blue, miserable, wistful, and dour. Each of these words carries a slightly different connotation. For example, dejected usually implies a sense of disappointment or rejection while melancholy suggests a general feeling of sadness. The specific synonym you use will depend on the context and tone you are trying to convey. However, all of these synonyms relate to someone who is unhappy or in a low mood.
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Similar words for morose:
- dejected (adjective)
- depressed (adjective)
- downcast (adjective)
- grief-stricken (adjective)
- hopeless (adjective)
- irritable (adjective)
- lugubrious (adjective)
- sullen (adjective)
- bitter (adjective)
- cantankerous (adjective)
- churlish (adjective)
- crabby (adjective)
- crabby/crabbed (adjective)
- dark (adjective)
- despondent (adjective)
- dispirited (adjective)
- dour (adjective)
- gloomy (adjective)
- grim (adjective)
- gruff (adjective)
- low (adjective)
- moody (adjective)
- peevish (adjective)
- pessimistic (adjective)
- sad (adjective)
- sick (adjective)
- sulky (adjective)
- surly (adjective)
- ugly (adjective)
Synonyms for Morose:
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adj.
• dejected- all torn up ,
- anguished ,
- anxious ,
- blue ,
- broody ,
- bummed out ,
- cast down ,
- contemplative ,
- despairing ,
- despondent ,
- disconsolate ,
- discouraged ,
- disheartened ,
- dolorous ,
- downhearted ,
- dreary ,
- gloomy ,
- glum ,
- heartbroken ,
- in the pits ,
- joyless ,
- lachrymose ,
- melancholy ,
- miserable ,
- mournful ,
- overcome ,
- pensive ,
- plaintive ,
- sad ,
- shot down ,
- wistful ,
- woeful ,
- Dampened ,
- Dragged ,
- abject ,
- clouded ,
- dashed ,
- drooping ,
- droopy ,
- heavyhearted ,
- hurting ,
- sagging .
- cast-down ,
- down and out ,
- in blue funk ,
- in pain ,
- in the toilet ,
- low-down ,
- lowdown ,
- on a downer ,
- torn up ,
- bad ,
- bleeding ,
- crummy ,
- destroyed ,
- let down ,
- ripped ,
- sob story ,
- taken down ,
- weeping .
- Moping ,
- beetle-browed ,
- contrary ,
- cross ,
- cynical ,
- dissociable ,
- fretful ,
- frowning ,
- glowering ,
- grouchy ,
- grumpy ,
- hostile ,
- irascible ,
- long-faced ,
- malevolent ,
- mean ,
- noncooperative ,
- obstinate ,
- petulant ,
- scowling ,
- sour ,
- sulky ,
- uncooperative ,
- unfriendly ,
- ungenial ,
- unsociable .
- alienated ,
- antagonistic ,
- begrudging ,
- biting ,
- divided ,
- estranged ,
- fierce ,
- freezing ,
- hateful ,
- intense ,
- irreconcilable ,
- morose ,
- rancorous ,
- resentful ,
- sardonic ,
- sore ,
- stinging ,
- virulent ,
- vitriolic .
- base ,
- crude ,
- cussed ,
- loutish ,
- miserly ,
- oafish ,
- rustic ,
- snippy ,
- uncivilized ,
- uncultured ,
- unmannerly ,
- unpolished ,
- vulgar .
- de solate ,
- de-solate ,
- dis heartening ,
- dis-heartening ,
- more acheronian ,
- more acherontic ,
- more depressive ,
- more disheartening ,
- more mirthless ,
- more moping ,
- more saddening ,
- most acheronian ,
- most acherontic ,
- most depressive ,
- most disheartening ,
- most mirthless ,
- most moping ,
- most saddening .
- grisly ,
- in exorable ,
- in tractable ,
- in-exorable ,
- in-tractable ,
- more glowering ,
- more scowling ,
- most glowering ,
- most scowling ,
- re solute ,
- re-solute ,
- un relenting ,
- un yielding ,
- un-relenting ,
- un-yielding .
- fault finding ,
- more caviling ,
- more grousing ,
- more growling ,
- more out of sorts ,
- more out-of-sorts ,
- more whining ,
- most caviling ,
- most grousing ,
- most growling ,
- most out of sorts ,
- most out-of-sorts ,
- most whining ,
- ogrer ,
- ogrest ,
- waspier ,
- waspiest .
- be reaved ,
- be-reaved ,
- in grief ,
- more bereaved ,
- more grieved ,
- most bereaved ,
- most grieved ,
- sick heart .
Other synonyms:
- peevish .
Other relevant words:
- Black-browed ,
- Broken-hearted ,
- Darksome ,
- Dumpish ,
- Grum ,
- Insociable ,
- MOPY ,
- Moodish ,
- Mopish ,
- Pouting ,
- Saddened ,
- Star-crossed ,
- Uncompanionable ,
- Uncourtly ,
- abrupt ,
- acrimonious ,
- antisocial ,
- appalling ,
- atrabilious ,
- austere ,
- autistic ,
- awful ,
- bad-mannered ,
- bad-tempered ,
- bashful ,
- benighted ,
- bilious ,
- bitter ,
- black ,
- blunt ,
- brokenhearted ,
- brooding ,
- brusque ,
- bulldog ,
- cad ,
- calamitous ,
- catastrophic ,
- caustic ,
- chap-fallen ,
- chapfallen ,
- chill ,
- choleric ,
- churlish ,
- cimmerian ,
- close ,
- closed ,
- cold ,
- colored ,
- coloured ,
- crabbed ,
- cranky ,
- crestfallen ,
- crook ,
- crossly ,
- crotchety ,
- crushed ,
- crushing ,
- crusty ,
- curmudgeonly ,
- curt ,
- deplorable ,
- depressing ,
- depression ,
- desirous ,
- desolate ,
- devastated ,
- dinginess ,
- dire ,
- disagreeable ,
- disappointed ,
- disastrous ,
- discontented ,
- discourteous ,
- disobliging ,
- dispiriting ,
- distressed ,
- distressing ,
- disturbing ,
- dogged ,
- doleful ,
- down ,
- down in the dumps ,
- down in the mouth ,
- downbeat ,
- downcast ,
- dreadful ,
- drear ,
- dreich ,
- dusky ,
- dyspeptic ,
- dysphoric ,
- earnest ,
- edgy ,
- egotistical ,
- embittered ,
- false ,
- forbidding ,
- frumpish ,
- funereal ,
- give way ,
- go down ,
- grave ,
- gray ,
- grief-stricken ,
- grieving ,
- grievous ,
- grim-faced ,
- grouchily ,
- growling ,
- gruff ,
- grumpily ,
- hapless ,
- having blue devils ,
- having the blahs ,
- heart-broken ,
- heartsick ,
- heavy ,
- heavy-hearted ,
- horrible ,
- huffish ,
- ill-fated ,
- ill-humored ,
- ill-humoured ,
- ill-mannered ,
- ill-natured ,
- ill-omened ,
- ill-starred ,
- imp ,
- impatient ,
- impolite ,
- impostor ,
- in a bad mood ,
- in a blue funk ,
- in low spirits ,
- in the doldrums ,
- in the dumps ,
- inauspicious ,
- incompatible ,
- inconsolable ,
- inexorable ,
- knave ,
- lamentable ,
- liverish ,
- lonesome ,
- longing ,
- loss ,
- louring ,
- low ,
- low-spirited ,
- lowering ,
- lugubrious ,
- melancholic ,
- mirthless ,
- misanthropic ,
- monkey ,
- mopey ,
- morbid ,
- murky ,
- nasty ,
- negative ,
- nongregarious ,
- obscure ,
- off ,
- off-key ,
- overwhelmed ,
- pace ,
- page ,
- pathetic ,
- persistent ,
- pertinacious ,
- perverse ,
- perversive ,
- piteous ,
- pitiable ,
- pitiful ,
- rancid ,
- rapscallion ,
- rascal ,
- reserved ,
- rhythm ,
- rigid ,
- rogue ,
- rude ,
- rueful ,
- rusty ,
- saturnine ,
- scamp ,
- scoundrel ,
- secret ,
- sedate ,
- self-contained ,
- self-sufficient ,
- selfish ,
- sepulchral ,
- serious ,
- severe ,
- shocking ,
- short ,
- sick ,
- sickly ,
- singing the blues ,
- sinister ,
- snappish ,
- snug ,
- sober ,
- solemn ,
- somber ,
- sombre ,
- sorrowful ,
- sorry ,
- splenetic ,
- staid ,
- stern ,
- stuffy ,
- subsidence ,
- sulking ,
- sunless ,
- swindler ,
- taciturn ,
- tearful ,
- temperamental ,
- tempo ,
- tenacious ,
- tenebrific ,
- tenebrous ,
- terrible ,
- testy ,
- threatening ,
- tragic ,
- tragical ,
- tristful ,
- ugly ,
- uncivil ,
- unclubbable ,
- uncommunicative ,
- uncongenial ,
- unfortunate ,
- unhappy ,
- unhelpful ,
- unlucky ,
- unpatriotic ,
- unpleasant ,
- unrelenting ,
- unsmiling ,
- unsocial ,
- unyielding ,
- upset ,
- upsetting ,
- villain ,
- waspish ,
- woebegone ,
- wretched ,
- yearning .
- Chuffy ,
- Clodhopping ,
- acheronian ,
- acherontic ,
- bearish ,
- bummed-out ,
- cantankerous ,
- cloddish ,
- dark ,
- dejected ,
- depressed ,
- depressive ,
- dispirited ,
- dour ,
- down in dumps ,
- down in mouth ,
- fatalistic ,
- grim ,
- grousing ,
- in a huff ,
- in despair ,
- in doldrums ,
- lowbred ,
- moody ,
- nasty-tempered ,
- out-of-sorts ,
- pessimistic ,
- pouty ,
- sick at heart ,
- sourpussed ,
- sullen ,
- surly ,
- unneighborly ,
- vinegarish ,
- vinegary ,
- waspy ,
- with chip on shoulder .
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How to use "Morose" in context?
Many people associate the word "morose" with being gloomy, negative, and pessimistic. Morose people are often seen as unfriendly, uncooperative, and unapproachable. In extreme cases, moroseness can become a form of mental illness. Despite being associated with negative attitudes, moroseness is actually a relatively common feeling. In fact, about one third of people experience episodes of moroseness at some point in their lives. Moroseness can be caused by a variety of factors, including personal life events, stress, and depression. While moroseness can be unpleasant, it is not necessarily a bad thing.
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Homophones for Morose:
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