| 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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