Moroseness

  • 81melancholy — Synonyms and related words: absorption, abstraction, aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, atrabiliar, atrabilious, bale, beetle browed, bitterness, black, black browed, blase, bleeding heart, blue, blues, boredness, boredom, bouderie,… …

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  • 82moodiness — Synonyms and related words: arbitrariness, bouderie, caprice, capriciousness, crankiness, crotchetiness, dejection, desultoriness, deviability, dumpishness, eccentricity, erraticism, fancifulness, fantasticality, fickleness, flightiness,… …

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  • 83surliness — Synonyms and related words: abruptness, aggressiveness, bearishness, beastliness, bluntness, boorishness, bouderie, brashness, brusqueness, brusquerie, churlishness, crustiness, curtness, dejection, dumpishness, glumness, grimness, gruffness,… …

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  • 84unfriendliness — Synonyms and related words: aggression, aggressiveness, antagonism, autism, bashfulness, bellicism, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, chauvinism, chill, chilliness, coldness, combativeness, contentiousness, coolness, disaffinity,… …

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  • 85depression — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) I n. recession, slowdown. II Pressing downward Nouns 1. depression, lowering; dip (see concavity); abasement, debasement; reduction. 2. overthrow, overset, overturn; upset; prostration, subversion,… …

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  • 86irritable — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fretful, petulant, peevish, touchy, sensitive. See irascibility. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. sensitive, irascible, touchy, testy, ill tempered, huffy, peevish, petulant, fractious, tense, high… …

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  • 87resentment — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Feeling of having been affronted Nouns 1. resentment, displeasure, animosity, anger, wrath, indignation, exasperation; pique, umbrage, huff, miff, soreness, dudgeon, acerbity, virulence, bitterness,… …

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  • 88stubbornness — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. obstinacy, doggedness, inflexibility, pertinacity, indomitability, perverseness, perversity, contumacy, obduracy, adamancy, refractoriness, mulishness, sullenness, pigheadedness, stupidity, intractableness, bullheadedness,… …

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  • 89morose — mo|rose [məˈrəus US ˈrous] adj [Date: 1500 1600; : Latin; Origin: morosus, from mos; MORAL1] bad tempered, unhappy, and silent ▪ Daniel seems very morose and gloomy. >morosely adv ▪ He stared morosely at the floor. >moroseness n [U] …

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  • 90spleen — [13] Spleen comes via Old French esplen and Latin splēn from Greek splén, which may have been related to Latin liēn ‘spleen’ and Greek splágkhnon ‘entrails’ (source of English splanchnic ‘of the viscera’ [17]). In medieval physiology many… …

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