morose

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.

   If there is any boy or man who loves to be melancholy and morose, and who cannot enter with kindly sympathy into the regions of fun, let me seriously advise him to shut my book and put it away. It is not meant for him.

Simplified etymology

Morose, recorded in English from the mid-16th century, ultimately traces back to Latin mos “custom,” whose plural mores means “morals”; the same Latin source lies behind moral.

From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.

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