morose means sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.
morose is pronounced /məˈɹəʊs/.
Why “morose” is a great word
Sullen, gloomy, and ill-humored. From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus ("particular, fastidious, peevish"), from mōs ("habit, custom, will"). Unlike melancholy, which suggests a pensive, often gentle sadness, or somber, which describes a grave atmosphere, morose implies a sullen, ill-tempered, and withdrawn gloom. It is the heavy silence at a birthday table, the scowl that refuses an offered cup, the deliberate slowness of one who finds participation itself beneath them—a mood not merely sad, but willfully, habitually, and uncooperatively sour.
Etymology
From French morose, from Latin mōrōsus (“particular, scrupulous, fastidious, self-willed, wayward, capricious, fretful, peevish”), from mōs (“way, custom, habit, self-will”). See moral.
adj
- Sullen, gloomy; showing a brooding ill humour.