Moroseness

  • 111bitterness — noun 1) the bitterness of the medicine Syn: sharpness, acidity, acridity, tartness, sourness, harshness; technical acerbity Ant: sweetness 2) there was no bitterness between them Syn: re …

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  • 112amenity — 1 Amenity, luxury both denote something (as an object, a feature, a quality, or an experience) that gives refined or exquisite pleasure or is exceedingly pleasing to the mind or senses. Amenity typically implies a delightful mildness, gentleness …

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  • 113irascible — irascible, choleric, splenetic, testy, touchy, cranky, cross mean easily angered or enraged. Irascible implies the possession of a fiery or inflammable temper or a tendency to flare up at the slightest provocation {the irascible but kindhearted… …

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  • 114sullen — sullen, *glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, dour, gloomy can mean governed by or showing, especially in one s aspect, a forbidding or disagreeable mood or disposition. One is sullen who is, often by disposition, gloomy, silent, and… …

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  • 115acrimony — n 1. acrimoniousness, causticity, asperity, mordancy, acridness, acridity, pungency, venom, venomousness, venomness; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; harshness, sharpness, sourness, acidulousness, acidity,… …

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  • 116asperity — n 1. acrimony, acrimoniousness, causticity, mordancy, bitterness, acridity, acridness, pungency, venom, venomousness, venomness; astringency, severity, sternness, acerbity, austerity, stringency; harshness, sharpness, sourness, acidulousness,… …

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  • 117crabbedness — n grouchiness, ill nature, ill humor, peevishness, spleen, gruffness; irritability, crotchetiness, Inf. crabbiness; bitterness, churlishness, snap pishness, surliness, acrimoniousness; petulance, moodiness, sullenness, moroseness; acerbity,… …

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  • 118dejection — n disheartenment, dispiritedness, low spiritedness, downheartedness, low spirits, downcastness; discouragement, disappointment, crestfallenness, broken heartedness, heartsickness; unhappiness, cheerlessness, glumness, gloominess, dolefulness,… …

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  • 119dolor — n sorrow, grief, Archaic. dole, sadness, ruth, heartache, heartbreak; anguish, misery, Archaic. bale; bereavement, lamentation, mourning; ache, pain, hurt, suffering, Archaic. teen; torture, torment, agony; wretchedness, desolation, heaviness of… …

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  • 120gloom — n 1. gloominess, dimness, obscurity, shade, shadow, dusk, duskiness, murkiness, murk; dark, overcast, cloud, cloud over, cloudiness, dullness, dinginess, darkness, swarthiness, blackness. 2. melancholy, sadness, sorrow, woe; moroseness,… …

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