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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Morose \Mo*rose"\ (m[-o]*r[=o]s"), adjective [L. morosus, prop., excessively addicted to any particular way or habit, fr. mos, moris, manner, habit, way of life: cf. F. morose.]
1. Of a sour temper; sullen and austere; ill-humored; severe. ''A morose and affected taciturnity.'' --I. Watts.
2. Lascivious; brooding over evil thoughts. [Obs.]
Syn: Sullen; gruff; severe; austere; gloomy; crabbed; crusty; churlish; surly; ill-humored.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
morose
adjective: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: {dark}, {dour}, {glowering}, {glum}, {moody}, {saturnine}, {sour}, {sullen}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
63 Moby Thesaurus words for "morose": autistic, bashful, beetle-browed, black, black-browed, brooding, broody, brusque, chapfallen, choleric, close, crabbed, cranky, crestfallen, dark, dejected, dissociable, dour, dumpish, frowning, gloomy, glowering, glum, grim, gruff, grum, incompatible, insociable, irascible, irritable, long-faced, lowering, melancholy, moodish, moody, mopey, moping, mopish, mumpish, nongregarious, saturnine, scowling, self-contained, self-sufficient, sick, sickly, snug, socially incompatible, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly, testy, ugly, unclubbable, uncommunicative, uncompanionable, uncongenial, unfriendly, ungenial, unsociable, unsocial, waspish
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