Flashcards: Latin Derivatives
morose

 

moody, gloomy, ill-humored

 

A fiftieth birthday can be an occasion for morose thoughts about the brevity of life or a time for the joyful anticipation of 50 more years.

 

Related English word: moroseness

 

Latin root word: morosus, morosa, morosum - peevish (irritable), fretful, captious (faultfinding)

 

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